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MCCABE, ANDREW G. (DO) (FBI) 


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MCCABE, ANDREW G. (DO) (FBI) 

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 1:51 PM 

To: 

PRIESTAP, E W. (CD) (FBI) 

Cc: 

COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: 

RE: Midyear Exam — UNCLASSIFIED 

Classification 

: UNCLASSIFIED 


Thanks very much Bill. Great feedback. 

Andrew G. McCabe 

Deputy Director 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Work:|j______p 

Mobile 


From: PRIESTAP, E W. (CD) (FBI) 

Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 7:17 PM 
To: MCCABE, ANDREW G. (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: RE: Midyear Exam — UNCLASSIFIED 

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


I will be out of town next week, and so wanted to provide you my initial thoughts. 

• The piece is superb. 

• If anything, the Director may wish to add a sentence or two in his conclusion about the FBI's obligations 
more generally. In other words, something not specifically about this case, but about what the FBI aims 
to do in all of our cases. He could do this after the first sentence in his last paragraph. For example, 
something like: 

'The American people entrust the FBI with impartially investigating all matters of crime involving people 
from all walks of life. We take that obligation extremely seriously, and" I can assure you that this 
investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently. No outside influence of any 
kind was brought to bear. I know there were many opinions expressed by people who were not 
part of the investigation — including people in government - but none of that mattered to us. 
Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our investigation, because 
we did the investigation in a professional way. Only facts matter, and the FBI found them here 
in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I couldn't be prouder to be part of this 
organization. 

I suggest this only to emphasize the point that this investigation was conducted in a manner consistent 


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with the fairness aims of all of our investigations, (i.e., no one is above the law, etc.). 

• The piece contains information that indicates the Secretary did not meet federal record requirements. 
Before deciding on the final wording of such information, the Director may wish to have someone study 
the impact his statements could have on any/all administrative inquiries relative to federal record 
obligations. I suggest this only so he's aware of any potential fallout in that regard. I assume such 
administrative inquiries aren't really a big deal, but if I was him I'd just want to be certain before 
deciding on the final wording. 

• I saw two typos on page 4, which I highlighted in red and yellow. 

Thank you for sharing the below with me. 

Bill 


From: MCCABE, ANDREW G. (DO) (FBI) 

Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 5:32 PM 

To: PRIESTAP, E W. (CD) (FBI); STRZOK, PETER P. (CD) (FBI); MOFFA, JONATHAN C. (CD) (FBI) (OGC) 

(FBI) 

Subject: FW: Midyear Exam — UNCLASSIFIED 

Importance: High 

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


Folks: 

The Director composed the below straw man in an effort to compose what a "final" statement might look like in 
the context of a press conference. This was really more of an exercise for him to get his thoughts on the matter 
in order, and not any kind of decision about venue, strategy, product, etc. 

The Director asked me to share this with you four, but not any further . The only additional people who have 
seen this draft are Jim Rybicki and Jim Baker. Please do not disseminate or discuss any further. 

I do not know if the boss will want to discuss this at the Monday update but please review it before the meeting 
just in case. 

Thanks 


Andrew G. McCabe 

Deputy Director 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

Work: 

Mobile: 


From: COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 7:15 PM 

To: MCCABE, ANDREW G. (DO) (FBI); BAKER, JAMES A. (OGC) (FBI); RYBICKI, JAMES E. (DO) (FBI) 
Cc: COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: Midyear Exam — UNCLASSIFIED 

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


TRANSITORY RECORD 


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RYBICKI, JAMES E. (DO) (FBI) 


From: RYBICKI, JAMES E. (DO) (FBI) 

Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 1:14 PM 

To: COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: MYE — UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO 

Attachments: MYE thoughts 06-10-16.docx 


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO 
DELIBERATIVE PROCESS PRIVILEGED DOCUMENT 


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO 


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I’ve been trying to imagine what it would look like if I decided to do an FBI 
only press event to close out our work and hand the matter to DOJ. To help 
shape our discussions of whether that, or something different, makes sense, I 
have spent some time crafting what I would say, which follows. In my 
imagination, I don’t see me taking any questions. Here is what it might look 
like: 


Good afternoon folks. I am here to give you an update on our investigation of 
Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email system, which began in late August mid- 
Julv . 

After a tremendous amount of work, the FBI has completed its investigation and 
has referred the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What 
I would like to do today is tell you three things: (1) what we did; (2) what we 
found; (3) what we have recommended to DOJ. 

But I want to start by thanking the many agents, analysts, technologists, and other 
FBI employees who did work of extraordinary quality in this case. Once you have 
a better sense of how much we have done, you will understand why I am so 
grateful and proud of their efforts. 


So, first: what we have done over the last eight months. 


The investigation began as a referral from the Intelligence Community Inspector 
General in connection with Secretary Clinton’s use of a ^rivate[email server during 
her time as Secretary of State, focused on whether classified information was 
transmitted on that private system. 

Our investigation focused on whether there is evidence that classified information 
was improperly stored or transmitted on that private system, in violation of a 
federal statute that makes it a felony to mishandle classified information either 
intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute that makes it a 
misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate 
systems or storage facilities. 


Commented [pi]: Consider whether it is more appropriate to 
call this a "personal" or "privately-owned" email server. "Private" 
may denote a commercial email service, such as gmail or hotmail. 
Use of these private commercial services was widespread at State 
before and during her tenure. 


Consistent with our counterintelligence responsibilities, we have also investigated 
to determine whether there is evidence of computer intrusion in connection with 


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the private email server by any foreign power, or hackers on behalf of a foreign 
power. 


I have so far used the singular term, “email server,” in describing the referral that 
began our investigation. It turns out to have been more complicated than that. 
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and providers administrators of 
those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous 
mobile devices to view and send email on that private domain. As new server s and 
equipment s and providers were employed, older servers were taken out of service, 
stored, and decommissioned in various ways. Piecing all of that back together to 
gain as full an understanding as possible of the ways in which private email was 
used for government work has been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands 
of hours of effort. 


For example, when one of Secretary Clinton’s original private servers was 
decommissioned in 2013xx, the email software was removed. Doing that didn’t 
remove the email content, but it was like removing the frame from a huge finished 
jigsaw puzzle and dumping the pieces on the floor. The effect was that millions of 
email fragments end up unsorted in the server’s un-used - or “slack” — space. We 
searched went through all of it to see what was there, and what parts of the puzzle 
could be put back together. 

FBI investigators have also read all 34,000 of the approximately 30,000 emails 
provided by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in spring 2015 December 
2014 . Where an email was assessed as possibly containing classified information, 
the FBI referred the email to ^fre- any U.S. government agency that was the-aTikely | 
“owner” of the information in the email so that agency could make a determination 
as to whether the email contained classified information at the time it was sent or 
received, or whether there was reason to classify the email now, even if its content 
was not classified at the time it was sent (this is the process sometimes referred to 
as “up classifying”). 

From that group of 34,000 30,000 emails that had been returned to the State 
Department in late 2014#, the FBI sent xxxx emails to agencies for classification 
determinations. Of those, xxxx have been determined by the owning agency to 
contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Xxxx of 
those contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; xxxx 
contained Secret information at the time; and xxxx contained Confidential 
information. Separate from those, a total of xxxx additional emails were “up 


Commented [p2]: 


( Commented [p3 ]: Some emails were sent to multiple agencies, j 


Commented [p4]: Ultimately, the number of emails determined 
to be classified will be a small percentage of those sent for review. 
We think this point will need to be addressed by explaining that we 
took an overly expansive and generous position in deciding what to 
send out for review. 


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classified” to make them Secret or Confidential; the information in those had not 
been classified at the time the emails were sent. 

The FBI also discovered xxxx- several thousand work-related emails that were not 
in the group of 31.000 30.000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 
2014#. We found those additional emails in a variety of ways. Some had been 
deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or 
were connected to the private email domain. Others we found by reviewing the 
archived government email accounts of people who had been government 
employees at the same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials 
at other agencies, with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond. This 
helped us recover work-related emails that were not among the 34,000 30,000 
produced to State. Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the 
millions of email fragments dumped into the slack space of the server 
decommissioned in 2013xx. 

All told, we found xxx^ thousands of emails that were not among those produced 
to the State Department last year in late 2014 . Of those, we assessed that xxxx 
possibly contained classified information at the time they were sent or received and 

so we sent them to other government agencies for classification determinations. 

To date, agencies have concluded that xxxx of those were classified at the time 
they were sent or received, xxx at the Secret level and xxxx at the Confidential 
level. There were no additional Top Secret emails found. Finally, xxxx none of 
those we found have since been “up classified.” 

I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related 
emails we found were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our 
assessment is that, like many users of private email accounts, Secretary Clinton 
periodically deleted emails or emails were purged from the system when devices 
were changed. Because she was not using a government account, there was no 
archiving of her emails, so it is not surprising that we discovered emails that were 
not on Secretary Clinton’s system in 201 #4, when she produced the 34,000 30,000 
emails to the State Department. 

It could also be that some of the additional work-related emails we recovered were 
among those deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers when they 
reviewed and sorted her emails for production in 2014#. We have conducted 
interviews and done technical examination to attempt to understand how that 
sorting was done. Although we do not have complete visibility because we are not 





















fully able to reconstruct the electronic record of that sorting, we believe our 
investigation has been sufficient to give us reasonable confidence there was no 
intentional misconduct in connection with that sorting effort. 

The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 20145 did not individually 
read the content of all of her tens of thousands of emails, as we did for those 
available to us ; instead, they used search terms to try to find all work-related 
emails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total emails remaining on Secretary 
Clinton’s private system in 20154. It is highly likely their search terms missed 
some work-related emails, and that we found them, for example, in the mailboxes 
of other officials or in the slack space of a server. It is also likely that there are 
other work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not 
find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they deleted all emails they did not 
return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in a such a way as to preclude 
forensic recovery. 

And, of course, in additional to our technical work, we interviewed many people, 
from those involved in setting up and maintaining the various iterations of 
Secretary Clinton’s private server to staff members with whom she corresponded 
on email, to those involved in the email production to State, and finally, Secretary 
Clinton herself. 


Lastly, we have done extensive work with the assistance of our colleagues 
elsewhere in the Intelligence Community to understand what indications there 
might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the private email 
operation. 


That’s what we have done. Now let me tell you what we found. 


Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues 

intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is 

evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive. 

highly classified information. There is evidence to support a conclusion that 
Secretary Clinton, and others, used the private email server in a manner that was 

grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information. For 
example, seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the TS/SAP 
level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton 
both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails from others about the 

same matters. There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable 


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person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government 
employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have 
known that an unclassified system was no place for such an email conversation. 
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues 

intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is 
evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, 
highly classified information. 

Similarly, In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found the sheer 
volume of information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. 
Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on email (that is, excluding 
the “up classified” emails) . This is especially concerning because all of these 
emails were housed on servers not supported by full-time security staff, like those 

found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government, supports an 
inference that the participants were grossly negligent in their handling of that 

information- 

W hile not the focus of our investigation, w e also developed evidence that the 
security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of 
unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care 
for classified information found elsewhere in the government. 

With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find 
direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal email system, in its various 
configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the 
system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely 
to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the 
private commercial email accounts of individuals with whom Secretary Clinton 
was in regular contact from her personal private account. We also assess that 
Secretary Clinton’s use of a private personal email domain was both known by a 
large number of people and readily apparent. Given that combination of factors, 
we assess it is reasonably likely possible that hostile actors gained access to 
Secretary Clinton’s private personal email account^ 

So that’s what we found. 

Finally, with respect to our recommendation to the Department of Justice. In 

our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are 
appropriate based on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t 


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normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently 
make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors 
about what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given 
the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order. 


In looking back at our investigations in similar circumstances, we cannot find a 
case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases 
prosecuted involved some combination of: (1) clearly intentional mishandling of 
classified information; (2) vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to 
support an inference of intentional misconduct; (3) indications of disloyalty to the 
United States; or (4) efforts to obstruct justice. All charged cases of which we are 
aware have involved the accusation that a government employee intentionally 
mishandled classified information. We see none of that |here|. 

Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the 
handling of classified information, my judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor 
would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before 
bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the 

evidence. But they must be balanced against things like the intent and context of 

the person’s actions. To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar 

circumstances, an individual who engaged in this activity would face NO 

consequences. To the contrary, such individuals are often subject to security or 

administrative sanctions. But that decision is not what is before me now. 


Commented [p6]: We changed none of this text, we simply 
reordered it. The original text is below, struck-out. 


Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute proscribing gross 

negligence in the handling of classified information and of the statute proscribing 

misdemeanor mishandling, my judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would 

bring such a case. At the outset, we are not aware of a case where anyone has been 

charged solely based on the “gross negligence” prohibition in the [ statute - -In 


looking back at our investigations in similar circumstances, we cannot find a case 

that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases 

prosecuted involved some combination of: (1) clearly intentional misconduct; (2) 

vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of 

intentional misconduct; (3) indications of disloyalty to the United States; or ( 4 ) 

efforts to obstruct justice. We see none of that here. 


Commented [p7]: 


Accordingly, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters 
such as this, I am completing the investigation by expressing to Justice my view 
that no charges are appropriate in this case. 


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I know there will be intense public disagreement in the wake of this result, as there 
was throughout this investigation. What I can assure the American people is that 
this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently. No outside 
influence of any kind was brought to bear. I know there were many opinions 
expressed by people who were not part of the investigation - including people in 
government - but none of that mattered to us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they 
were all uninformed by insight into our investigation, because we did the 
investigation in a professional way. Only facts matter, and the FBI found them 
here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I couldn’t be prouder to be part 
of this organization. 


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COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 


From: 

Sent: 

To: 

Subject: 

Attachments: 


COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 
Thursday, June 30, 2016 9:50 AM 
RYBICKI, JAMES E. (DO) (FBI) 
Current draft — UNCLASSIFIED 
MYE JBC June 30 2016.pdf 


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


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Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of 
Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of 
State. 


After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI has finished 
its investigation and referred the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive 
decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what we did; what 
we found; and what we have recommended to the Department of Justice. 

This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going 
to include more detail than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people 
deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not 
coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice 
or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say. 

But I want to start by thanking the many FBI employees who did remarkable 
work in this case. Once you have a better sense of how much we have done, you 
will understand why I am so grateful and proud of their efforts. 

So, first, what we have done: 

The investigation began as a referral from the Intelligence Community 
Inspector General in connection with Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email 
server during her time as Secretary of State. The referral focused on whether 
classified information was transmitted on that personal system. 

Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence that classified 
information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in 
violation of a federal statute that makes it a felony to mishandle classified 
information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute 
that makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from 
appropriate systems or storage facilities. 

Consistent with our counter-intelligence responsibilities, we have also 
investigated to determine whether there is evidence of computer intrusion in 
connection with the personal email server by any foreign power, or other hostile 
actors. 


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I have so far used the singular term, “email server,” in describing the referral 
that began our investigation. It turns out to have been more complicated than that. 
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers 
during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices 
to view and send email on that personal domain. As new servers and equipment 
were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and 
decommissioned in various ways. Piecing all of that back together — to gain as full 
an understanding as possible of the ways in which personal email was used for 
government work — has been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of 
hours of effort. 

For example, when one of Secretary Clinton’s original personal servers was 
decommissioned in 2013, the email software was removed. Doing that didn’t 
remove the email content, but it was like removing the frame from a huge finished 
jigsaw puzzle and dumping the pieces on the floor. The effect was that millions of 
email fragments end up unsorted in the server’s un-used - or “slack” - space. We 
searched through all of it to see what was there, and what parts of the puzzle could 
be put back together. 

FBI investigators have also read all of the approximately 30,000 emails 
provided by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in December 2014. Where 
an email was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the FBI 
referred the email to any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner” of 
information in the email, so that agency could make a determination as to whether 
the email contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or 
whether there was reason to classify the email now, even if its content was not 
classified at the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes referred to as “up- 
classifying”). 

From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Departmen 
emails i email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain 
classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains 
contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains 
contained Secret information at the time; an contained Confidential information, 
which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 
additional emails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information 
in those had not been classified at the time the emails were sent. 

The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related emails that were not 
in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. 


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We found those additional emails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over 
the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected 
to the private email domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived 
government email accounts of people who had been government employees at the 
same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, 
people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond. This helped us 
recover work-related emails that were not among the 30,000 produced to State. 

Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of email 
fragments dumped into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 2013. 

With respect to the thousands of emails we found that were not among those 
produced to State, agencies have concluded that xx of those were classified at the 
time they were sent or received, x at the Secret level and xx at the Confidential 
level. There were no additional Top Secret emails found. Finally, xx of those we 
found have since been “up-classified.” 

I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work- 
related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our 
assessment is that, like many email users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted 
emails or emails were purged from the system when devices were changed. 
Because she was not using a government account - or even a commercial account 
like Gmail - there was no archiving at all of her emails, so it is not surprising that 
we discovered emails that were not on Secretary Clinton’s system in 2014, when 
she produced the 30,000 emails to the State Department. 

It could also be that some of the additional work-related emails we 
recovered were among those deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers 
when they reviewed and sorted her emails for production in 2014. 

The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not 
individually read the content of all of her emails, as we did for those available to 
us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find 
all work-related emails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total emails 
remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014. It is highly likely their 
search terms missed some work-related emails, and that we later found them, for 
example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server. 

It is also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to 
State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they 
deleted all emails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices 
in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery. 


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We have conducted interviews and done technical examination to attempt to 
understand how that sorting was done by her attorneys. Although we do not have 
complete visibility because we are not fully able to reconstruct the electronic 
record of that sorting, we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us 
reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that 
sorting effort. 

And, of course, in addition to our technical work, we interviewed many 
people, from those involved in setting up and maintaining the various iterations of 
Secretary Clinton’s personal server, to staff members with whom she corresponded 
on email, to those involved in the email production to State, and finally, Secretary 
Clinton herself. 

Last, we have done extensive work to understand what indications there 
might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the personal email 
operation. 

That’s what we have done. Now let me tell you what we found: 

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her 
colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified 
information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling 
of very sensitive, highly classified information. 

For example, seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the 
Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. 

These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters 
and receiving emails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to 
support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or 
in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding 
about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place 
for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also 
found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence 
Community at the time it was discussed on email (that is, excluding the later “up- 
classified” emails). 

None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, 
but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed 
on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like 


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those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government - or even with a 
commercial service like Gmail. 

Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified 
information. Only a very small number of the emails containing classified 
information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But 
even if information is not marked “classified” in an email, participants who know 
or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it. 

While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the 
security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of 
unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care 
for classified information found elsewhere in the government. 

With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not 
find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal email system, in its various 
configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the 
system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely 
to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the 
private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in 
regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s 
use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and 
readily apparent. She also used her personal email extensively while outside the 
United States, including from the territory of sophisticated adversaries. That use 
included an email exchange with the President while Secretary Clinton was on the 
territory of such an adversary. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is 
possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email 
account. 

So that’s what we found. Finally, with respect to our recommendation to the 
Department of Justice: 

In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are 
appropriate based on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t 
normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently 
make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors 
about what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given 
the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order. 


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Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding 
the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable 
prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of 
factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength 
of the evidence, especially about intent. Responsible decisions also consider the 
context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the 
past. 


In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of 
classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal 
charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: 
clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast 
quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of 
intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts 
to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here. 

To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who 
engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those 
individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not 
what we are deciding now. 

As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on 
matters like this, we are completing the investigation by expressing to Justice our 
view that no charges are appropriate in this case. 

I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this 
recommendation, as there was throughout this investigation. What I can assure the 
American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly, and 
independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear. 

I know there were many opinions expressed by people who were not part of 
the investigation - including people in government - but none of that mattered to 
us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our 
investigation, because we did the investigation the right way. Only facts matter, 
and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I 
couldn’t be prouder to be part of this organization. 


### 


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COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 


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COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 
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Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of 
Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of 
State. 


After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI has finished 
its investigation and is referring the case to the Department of Justice for a 
prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what 
we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of 
Justice. 

This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going 
to include more detail than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people 
deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not 
coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice 
or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say. 

I want to start by thanking the many FBI employees who did remarkable 
work in this case. Once you have a better sense of how much we have done, you 
will understand why I am so grateful and proud of their efforts. 

So, first, what we have done: 

The investigation began as a referral from the Intelligence Community 
Inspector General in connection with Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal email 
server during her time as Secretary of State. The referral focused on whether 
classified information was transmitted on that personal system. 

Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence that classified 
information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in 
violation of a federal statute that makes it a felony to mishandle classified 
information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute 
that makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from 
appropriate systems or storage facilities. 

Consistent with our counter-intelligence responsibilities, we have also 
investigated to determine whether there is evidence of computer intrusion in 
connection with the personal email server by any foreign power, or other hostile 
actors. 


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I have so far used the singular term, “email server,” in describing the referral 
that began our investigation. It turns out to have been more complicated than that. 
Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers 
during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices 
to view and send email on that personal domain. As new servers and equipment 
were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and 
decommissioned in various ways. Piecing all of that back together — to gain as full 
an understanding as possible of the ways in which personal email was used for 
government work — has been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of 
hours of effort. 

For example, when one of Secretary Clinton’s original personal servers was 
decommissioned in 2013, the email software was removed. Doing that didn’t 
remove the email content, but it was like removing the frame from a huge finished 
jigsaw puzzle and dumping the pieces on the floor. The effect was that millions of 
email fragments end up unsorted in the server’s un-used - or “slack” - space. We 
searched through all of it to see what was there, and what parts of the puzzle could 
be put back together. 

FBI investigators have also read all of the approximately 30,000 emails 
provided by Secretary Clinton to the State Department in December 2014. Where 
an email was assessed as possibly containing classified information, the FBI 
referred the email to any U.S. government agency that was a likely “owner” of 
information in the email, so that agency could make a determination as to whether 
the email contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or 
whether there was reason to classify the email now, even if its content was not 
classified at the time it was sent (that is the process sometimes referred to as “up- 
classifying”). 

From the group of 30,000 emails returned to the State Departmen 
emails i email chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain 
classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains 
contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains 
contained Secret information at the time; an contained Confidential information, 
which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 
additional emails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information 
in those had not been classified at the time the emails were sent. 

The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related emails that were not 


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in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. 

We found those additional emails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over 
the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected 
to the private email domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived 
government email accounts of people who had been government employees at the 
same time as Secretary Clinton, including high-ranking officials at other agencies, 
people with whom a Secretary of State might naturally correspond. This helped us 
recover work-related emails that were not among the 30,000 produced to State. 

Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of email 
fragments dumped into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 2013. 

With respect to the thousands of emails we found that were not among those 
produced to State, agencies have concluded that xx of those were classified at the 
time they were sent or received, x at the Secret level and xx at the Confidential 
level. There were no additional Top Secret emails found. Finally, xx of those we 
found have since been “up-classified.” 

I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work- 
related emails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our 
assessment is that, like many email users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted 
emails or emails were purged from the system when devices were changed. 
Because she was not using a government account - or even a commercial account 
like Gmail - there was no archiving at all of her emails, so it is not surprising that 
we discovered emails that were not on Secretary Clinton’s system in 2014, when 
she produced the 30,000 emails to the State Department. 

It could also be that some of the additional work-related emails we 
recovered were among those deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers 
when they reviewed and sorted her emails for production in 2014. 

The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not 
individually read the content of all of her emails, as we did for those available to 
us; instead, they relied on header information and used search terms to try to find 
all work-related emails among the reportedly more than 60,000 total emails 
remaining on Secretary Clinton’s personal system in 2014. It is highly likely their 
search terms missed some work-related emails, and that we later found them, for 
example, in the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server. 

It is also likely that there are other work-related emails that they did not produce to 
State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are now gone because they 


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deleted all emails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their devices 
in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery. 


We have conducted interviews and done technical examination to attempt to 
understand how that sorting was done by her attorneys. Although we do not have 
complete visibility because we are not able to fully reconstruct the electronic 
record of that sorting, we believe our investigation has been sufficient to give us 
reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with that 
sorting effort. 

And, of course, in addition to our technical work, we interviewed many 
people, from those involved in setting up and maintaining the various iterations of 
Secretary Clinton’s personal server, to staff members with whom she corresponded 
on email, to those involved in the email production to State, and finally, Secretary 
Clinton herself. 

Last, we have done extensive work to understand what indications there 
might be of compromise by hostile actors in connection with the personal email 
operation. 

That’s what we have done. Now let me tell you what we found: 

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her 
colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified 
information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling 
of very sensitive, highly classified information. 

For example, seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the 
Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. 

These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters 
and receiving emails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to 
support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position, or 
in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding 
about these matters, should have known that an unclassified system was no place 
for that conversation. In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also 
found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence 
Community at the time it was discussed on email (that is, excluding the later “up- 
classified” emails). 


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None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, 
but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed 
on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like 
those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government - or even with a 
commercial service like Gmail. 

Separately, it is important to say something about the marking of classified 
information. Only a very small number of the emails containing classified 
information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But 
even if information is not marked “classified” in an email, participants who know 
or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it. 

While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the 
security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of 
unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care 
for classified information found elsewhere in the government. 

With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not 
find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal email domain, in its various 
configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the 
system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely 
to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the 
private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in 
regular contact from her personal account. We also assess that Secretary Clinton’s 
use of a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and 
readily apparent. She also used her personal email extensively while outside the 
United States, including from the territory of sophisticated adversaries. That use 
included an email exchange with another senior government official while 
Secretary Clinton was in the territory of such an adversary. Given that 
combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to 
Secretary Clinton’s personal email account. 

So that’s what we found. Finally, with respect to our recommendation to the 
Department of Justice: 

In our system, the prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are 
appropriate based on evidence the FBI has helped collect. Although we don’t 
normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we frequently 
make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors 


SJC000078 



about what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given 
the importance of the matter, I think unusual transparency is in order. 

Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding 
the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable 
prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of 
factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength 
of the evidence, especially about intent. Responsible decisions also consider the 
context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the 
past. 


In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of 
classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal 
charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: 
clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast 
quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of 
intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts 
to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here. 

To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who 
engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those 
individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not 
what we are deciding now. 

As a result, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on 
matters like this, we are completing the investigation by expressing to Justice our 
view that no charges are appropriate in this case. 

I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this 
recommendation, as there was throughout this investigation. What I can assure the 
American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly, and 
independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear. 

I know there were many opinions expressed by people who were not part of 
the investigation - including people in government - but none of that mattered to 
us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed by insight into our 
investigation, because we did the investigation the right way. Only facts matter, 
and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I 
couldn’t be prouder to be part of this organization. 

### 


SJC000079 



COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 


From: 

COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Sent: 

Monday, May 02, 2016 7:15 PM 

To: 

MCCABE, ANDREW G. (DO) (FBI); BAKER, JAMES A. (OGC) (FBI); RYBICKI, JAMES E. 
(DO) (FBI) 

Cc: 

COMEY, JAMES B. (DO) (FBI) 

Subject: 

Midyear Exam — UNCLASSIFIED 


Classification: UNCLASSIFIED 


TRANSITORY RECORD 

I’ve been trying to imagine what it would look like if I decided to do an FBI only press event 
to close out our work and hand the matter to DOJ. To help shape our discussions of whether 
that, or something different, makes sense, I have spent some time crafting what I would say, 
which follows. In my imagination, I don’t see me taking any questions. Here is what it might 
look like: 


Good afternoon folks. I am here to give you an update on our investigation of Secretary' Clinton's use 
of a private email system, which began in late August. 

After a tremendous amount of work, the FBI has completed its investigation and has referred the case 
to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you 
three things: (1) what we did; (2) what we found; (3) what we have recommended to DOJ. 

But I want to start by thanking the many agents, analysts, technologists, and other FBI employees who 
did work of extraordinary' quality in this case. Once you have a better sense of how much we have 
done, you will understand why I am so grateful and proud of their efforts. 

So, first: what we have done over the last eight months. 

The investigation began as a referral from the Intelligence Community' Inspector General in 
connection with Secretary' Clinton's use of a private email server during his time as Secretary' of State, 
focused on whether classified information was transmitted on that private system. 

Our investigation focused on whether there is evidence that classified information was improperly 
stored or transmitted on that private system, in violation of a federal statute that makes it a felony to 
mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute 
that makes it a misdemeanor to remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage 
facilities. 


Consistent with our counterintelligence responsibilities, we have also investigated to determine 
whether there is evidence of computer intrusion in connection with the private email server by any 
foreign power, or hackers on behalf of a foreign power. 


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investigation. It turns out to have been more complicated than that. Secretary Clinton used several 
different servers and providers of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used 
numerous mobile devices to view and send email on that private domain. As new servers and providers 
were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and decommissioned in various ways. 
Piecing all of that back together to gain as full an understanding as possible of the ways in which 
private email was used for government work has been a painstaking undertaking, requiring thousands of 
hours of effort. 

For example, when one of Secretary' Clinton's original private servers was decommissioned in 20xx. 
the email software was removed. Doing that didn’t remove the email content, but it was like removing 
the frame from a huge finished jigsaw puzzle and dumping the pieces on the floor. The effect was that 
millions of email fragments end up unsorted in the server’s un-used - or "slack” - space. We went 
through all of it to see what was there, and what parts of the puzzle could be put back together. 

FBI investigators have also read all 34.000 emails provided by Secretary' Clinton to the State 
Department in spring 2015. Where an email was assessed as possibly containing classified 
information, the FBI referred the email to the U.S. government agency that was the likely “owner” of 
the information in the email so that agency could make a determination as to whether the email 
contained classified information at the time it was sent or received, or whether there was reason to 
classify the email now. even if its content was not classified at the time it was sent (this is the process 
sometimes referred to as “up classifying”). 

From that group of 34.000 emails that had been returned to the State Department in 2015. the FBI sent 
xxxx emails to agencies for classification determinations. Of those, xxxx have been determined to 
contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Xxxx of those contained 
information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; xxxx contained Secret information at the 
time; and xxxx contained Confidential information. Separate from those, a total of xxxx additional 
emails were up classified” to make them Secret or Confidential; the information in those had not 
been classified at the time the emails were sent. 

The FBI also discovered xxxx work-related emails that were not in the group of 34.000 that were 
returned by Secretary' Clinton to State in 2015. We found those additional emails in a variety of ways. 
Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were 
connected to the private email domain. Others we found by reviewing the archived government email 
accounts of people who had been government employees at the same time as Secretary' Clinton, 
including high-ranking officials at other agencies, with whom a Secretary' of State might naturally 
correspond. This helped us recover work-related emails that were not among the 34.000 produced to 
State. Still others we recovered from the laborious review of the millions of email fragments dumped 
into the slack space of the server decommissioned in 20xx. 

All told, we found xxxx emails that were not among those produced to the State Department last year. 
Of those, we assessed that xxxx possibly contained classified information at the time they were sent 
or received and so we sent them to other government agencies for classification determinations. To 
date, agencies have concluded that xxxx of those were classified at the time thev were sent or 
received, xxx at the Secret level and xxxx at the Confidential level. There were no additional Top 
Secret emails found. Finally, none of those we found have since been up classified.” 

I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related emails we found 
were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our assessment is that, like many users of 
private email accounts. Secretary' Clinton periodically deleted emails or emails were purged from the 


SJC000141 


system when devices were changed. Because she was not using a government account, there was no 
archiving of her emails, so it is not surprising that we discovered emails that were not on Secretary' 
Clinton’s system in 2015. when she produced the 34 ; 000 emails to the State Department. 

It could also be that some of the additional work-related emails we recovered were among those 
deleted as 'personal” by Secretary' Clinton s lawyers when they reviewed and sorted her emails for 
production in 2015. We have conducted interviews and done technical examination to attempt to 
understand how that sorting was done. Although we do not have complete visibility' because we are not 
fully able to reconstruct the electronic record of that sorting, we believe our investigation has been 
sufficient to give us reasonable confidence there was no intentional misconduct in connection with 
that sorting effort. 

The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary' Clinton in 2015 did not individually read tens of thousands 
of emails, as we did; instead, they used search terms to try to find all work-related emails among the 
more than 60.000 total emails remaining on Secretary' Clinton’s private system in 2015. It is highly 
likely their search terms missed some work-related emails, and that we found them, for example, in 
the mailboxes of other officials or in the slack space of a server. It is also likely that there are other 
work-related emails that they did not produce to State and that we did not find elsewhere, and that are 
now gone because they deleted all emails they did not return to State, and the lawyers cleaned their 
devices in a such a way as to preclude forensic recovery. 

And. of course, in additional to our technical work, we interviewed many people, from those involved 
in setting up and maintaining the various iterations of Secretary Clinton’s private server to staff 
members with whom she corresponded on email, to those involved in the email production to State, 
and finally. Secretary Clinton herself. 

Lastly, we have done extensive work with the assistance of our colleagues elsewhere in the 
Intelligence Community' to understand what indications there might be of compromise by hostile 
actors in connection with the private email operation. 

That’s what we have done. Now let me tell you what we found. 


There is evidence to support a conclusion that Secretary Clinton, and others, used the private email 
server in a manner that was grossly negligent with respect to the handling of classified information. 
For example, seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the TS/SAP level when they 
were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those 
matters and receiving emails from others about the same matters. There is evidence to support a 
conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary' Clinton’s position, or in the positon of those 
government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, should have known that 
an unclassified system was no place for such an email conversation. Although we did not find clear 
evidence that Secretary' Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of 
classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very' 
sensitive, highly classified information. 

Similarly, the sheer volume of information that was properly classified as Secret at the time it was 
discussed on email (that is. excluding the "up classified” emails) supports an inference that the 
participants were grossly negligent in their handling of that information. 


We also developed evidence that the security' culture of the State Department in general, and with 
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With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that 
Secretary' Clinton's personal email system, in its various configurations since 2009. was successfully 
hacked. But. given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we 
would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the 
private email accounts of individuals with whom Secretary' Clinton was in regular contact from her 
private account. We also assess that Secretary' Clinton's use of a private email domain was both 
known by a large number of people and readily apparent. Given that combination of factors, we asses 
it is reasonably likely that hostile actors gained access to Secretary' Clinton's private email account. 

So that’s what we found. 

Finally, with respect to our recommendation to the Department of Justice. In our system, the 
prosecutors make the decisions about whether charges are appropriate based on evidence the FBI has 
helped collect. Although we don't normally make public our recommendations to the prosecutors, we 
frequently make recommendations and engage in productive conversations with prosecutors about 
what resolution may be appropriate, given the evidence. In this case, given the importance of the 
matter. I think unusual transparency is in order. 

Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute proscribing gross negligence in the 
handling of classified information and of the statute proscribing misdemeanor mishandling, my 
judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. At the outset, we are not aware of 
a case where anyone has been charged solely based on the ''gross negligence” prohibition in the 
statute. All charged cases of which we are aware have involved the accusation that a government 
employee intentionally mishandled classified information. In looking back at our investigations in 
similar circumstances, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these 
facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: (1) clearly intentional misconduct; (2) 
vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional 
misconduct; (3) indications of disloyalty to the United States; or (4) efforts to obstruct justice. We 
see none of that here. 

Accordingly, although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters such as this. I am 
completing the investigation by expressing to Justice my view that no charges are appropriate in this 
case. 

I know there will be intense public disagreement in the wake of this result, as there was throughout this 
investigation. What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done competently, 
honestly, and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear. I know there were 
many opinions expressed by people who were not part of the investigation — including people in 
government - but none of that mattered to us. Opinions are irrelevant, and they were all uninformed 
by insight into our investigation, because we did the investigation in a professional way. Only facts 
matter, and the FBI found them here in an entirely apolitical and professional way. I couldn't be 
prouder to be part of this organization. 




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Whoa. What?! 

Yeah, surprise to me to. Taking over special. Sorry can't text now, 

should be able to in about an h our. Met Trisha. _ 

special you mean? Understood re timing. Sorry for all the 

questions._ 

Maybe we can talk in the car when you are free. So long as it is 100% 

work si nce he'll be ri ght next to me. _ 

Still meetings. Sorry. Not The one I griped about hq running. 

Sure will call in a bit, will check here first. _ 

I know it's a total s-show, but still. I'm proud of you. 

\U000_lf636_ _ 

Kind of ridiculously hugely so. \U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 

\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 

Just call when you do get free. I'll just act surprised to hear from you. 

■ Why am I calling? See if you want to work on it when you get back? 


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Just to give the news? 


Hi there. Good to call? 


right? 


Truly. Soooo proud. 

\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 



And of course send me articles that you find helpful/iliuminating to 

learn about the topic. \U0001f636_ 

Sigh. Hi. Sitting here reading affidavits. Happy to be engaged in work 

again...\u263a _ 

I'm soooo happy for you. \U0001f60a Who's affidavit. 


\U0001f636\n\nNo. Who's 



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1 do too!!!! 1 want you back from and TDYed to the 

team sc and can get back to their regular work, you can 

interface with and all these other ahole lawyers. 

2015-08-23 

17:08:24, Sun 

INBOX 


2015-08-23 

18:09:19, Sun 

INBOX 

Hi there! Yes, though he's not an "excited" sort of guy 


OUTBOX 

How do you know him again? Was he on your squad back in the day? 





2015-08-23 
18:13:04, Sun 

INBOX 

Dang that's a long drive.\n\n Pretty much knew him by reputation 
only he was a crim agent and then on for a while. 

2015-08-23 
18:14:47, Sun 

OUTBOX 

That's a lot of confidence to pull as your ssa, although 1 guess you've 
seen him as a supervisor for a few months now. \n\r 




2015-08-23 
18:17:05, Sun 


Yeah, though more important is his agent and analytic corps and they 
are solid. He's got the right personality to herd a bunch of 
detailees/TDYers, though 1 don't know that we'll have to do that. 

2015-08-23 

18:17:38, Sun 

INBOX 


2015-08-23 

21:33:15, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Excited about work tomorrow? Are you going into 
vour office or iust straight to HQ? 

2015-08-23 
21:39:09, Sun 

INBOX 

Some, also some apprehension, of 
course.\n\nWf first, do 8:30 with Andy then to HQ. Pick up a billion 
people and drive to State for 10:30 meeting with AS of DS 


2015-08-23 

21:42:25, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Oh man, that's right, you're acting SAC. Are you still? 

2015-08-23 

INBOX 

No. Gregg was willing to go either way. 1 told him I thought 1 needed 


21:47:21, Sun 


to be focused at HQ. Might end up being able to do both but I think 


probably not. \n\nl'm doing tomorrow's 8:30 (essentially to brief and 


ask for a couple of analysts and a couple of cyber people), then Aaron 




has the helm. 

2015-08-23 

OUTBOX 

Got it. Makes sense. 


23:12:20, Sun 


2015-08-23 
23:52:38, Sun 


INBOX 


I know I can't tomorrow, but I’ll do my darndest the next two days. 


Currently there are no meetings 


I'm aware of on either Tues or Wed. 


2015-08-24 INBOX 
00:02:45, Mon I 


I have a briefing from 2 till likely 4/4:30\n\nlmsg? 


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Yes, 1 can imsg. 

2015-08-24 

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UNBOX 

Ok. May have time depending on when State mtg gets done, before 
my 2...but that's not at all certain. 

2015-08-24 

11:02:56, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hi there. No dawdling for you this morning! Sorry for the delay, went 
for a walk with 

2015-08-24 
11:15:13, Mon 

INBOX 

Already driving. How was the walk with 5 1 like having her on the 

team, but I was discouraged that she was so busy she was going to 
have or somebody else start covering for her 

sometimes.\n\nDespite my personal interaction with him. I'm just not 
sure about his temperament in this project. 

2015-08-24 
11:17:53, Mon 

OUTBOX 

No you're right. He's a petulant baby (remind me to tell you his latest 
fit with her). She's being told that this new case (that's all she would 
say to me), followed by dead people. 

So I'd be surprised if she hands off too much to him. More that she's 
going to have to let him handle more of which she doesn't really 

want to do. 

2015-08-24 

11:19:44, Mon 

OUTBOX 

She told me he wasn't read in to it yet, though he was aware of it. 

2015-08-24 

11:23:21, Mon 

INBOX 

Yeah, and he already spilled the beans to my people. That's how 1 first 
found out.\n\nThe light blue tie with this thin dark blue stripe running 
across it 

2015-08-24 

11:24:43, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Ah, yes. 1 didn't know it had a name. :)\n\nThat's aggravating. You 
should say something to 

2015-08-24 

11:52:23, Mon 

INBOX 

Rgr. At work, going to be lOOmph for a while 

2015-08-25 

11:34:59, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 

What do you have after your briefing this morning? 

2015-08-25 

11:48:30, Tue 

INBOX 

The bulk of my day is going to be spent trying to scratch up resources. 
Particularly personnel outside of CD. 

2015-08-25 

11:59:20, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You ID your cyber and cart agents yet? 

2015-08-25 

12:01:15, Tue 

INBOX 

1 have. Wf cyber may not agree. 1 get to play the escalate it up the 
chain of command game today 

2015-08-25 

12:08:08, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Will Andy side with you you think? 

2015-08-25 
12:13:40, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh, he has and he will. This is just foot dragging by And nothing 

angers an asac more than going to an sac, and nothing angers an SAC 
more than going to his adic. So 1 need to try and finesse it but my time 
to oissoff issiort... 

2015-08-25 

14:18:40, Tue 

INBOX 

^^gjg^*^ayayMaBBn\nAlso, heading to wf to shake the 
resource tree, \n\n5till good for lunch? 


2015-08-25 INBOX No but stills!\n\nLeaving Jeh now...sigh... 

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Boo for you. \U0001f615 Why so late? 

2015-08-25 

23:14:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Affidavit and housekeeping 

2015-08-26 

01:30:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Your stupidass 8:30 meeting means and 1 have to go back to 

meeting at 5:45 for our walk. \U0001f61b 

2015-08-26 
01:40:59, Wed ' 

OUTBOX 

No, stupidass is your meeting, I've already explained that. Do 1 need 
to go slower? \U0001f618 

2015-08-26 

01:41:27, Wed 

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Dumb work. 

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01:41:50, Wed 

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1 ™.~ r ~ .^ 

i 

2015-08-26 

01:50:54, Wed 

INBOX 

1 will reserve my sad pathetic petulant inappropriate response for 
elsewhere. \n\nOr, better yet, have the dignity not to at all. 
\U0001f614\n\nWill be up for a while with affidavit if you can imsg 

2015-08-27 

11:35:59, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Aargh. 1 just called the BOC for a temp pass and the dude said 1 
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And heading into sioc now... 

2015-08-27 

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I'll try. 

12:20:22, Thu 


But I'll try. 

2015-08-27 

INBOX 

NR. Sounds like DD going to stop by our space around 2:30 so just as 

15:05:02, Thu 


well. Ok to imsg? 

2015-08-27 

19:12:04, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Mtg with andy 

2015-08-27 

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Hilariously, Andy's suggestion was that 1 should be tdyed to the thing 

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Of course 1 want to talk all about it. Will end up 
ok...\n\nl have 430 with Randy, will let you know when done\n\nAnd 
Holy sh*t yes!!! is way.way burdened. Only thing 1 don't know is 

what workload will look like I'm a month, \u263a 

2015-08-27 

21:04:45, Thu 

INBOX 

Hey there. I'm done 

2015-08-27 

21:07:50, Thu 

INBOX 

Heading back into sioc for a bit 

2015-08-27 

21:57:05, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Hi there. Dad HH, so probably can't talk tonight. 1 sent Jim and Trisha 
a couple of extra thoughts, maybe 1 shouldn't have but I did. Will 
forward. 

2015-08-27 
22:15:24, Thu 

INBOX 

Given that all 1 want to do is sit and talk with you about the 
conversation and the path ahead. 

2015-08-27 
23:15:48, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Hi. Thanks for listening. Really don't know what to do. 

2015-08-27 
23:21:59, Thu 

INBOX 

Of course. Would have killed me not to hear it. Something will come. 
It's not going to be a happy comfortable time until it does, but things 
work out for really talented people like you. \U0001f636 

2015-08-28 
00:03:40, Fri 

OUTBOX 

still at work. And can't walk tomorrow be she's going in early. 

2015-08-28 
01:50:56, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Sorry about the delay. Had a long conversation with the woman 
(seems really promising), 


2015-08-28 

02:13:16, Fri 

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Promised 

everyone, especially a Bullfrog bagel for staying so late on our 

stuff. 

2015-08-28 

11:14:05, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Meh. Not really. 1 am just 100% positive that nothing is going to get 
resolved before 1 am back to work. 1 mean, there are only 5 weeks left 
before I'm back.:( 

2015-08-28 
11:17:06, Fri 

INBOX 1 

I'm sure something interesting will come up. If not what I'm doing, 
there will be something that emerges between now and then. That's 
not much comfort for you though. 


2015-08-28 

11:17:47, Fri 

INBOX 

Plus, I'm willing to bet that Andy can identify something for you to do 
between now and then. Did you two talk about that at all? 1 mean you 
working for him in his current capacity? 

2015-08-28 
11:19:26, Fri 

OUTBOX 

No. 1 hoped that he would, but he didn't bring it up and I'm not going 
to ask again. 1 guess it's still early - there's not even a computer in his 
office. 

2015-08-28 

11:26:26, Fri 

INBOX 

Yeah. Look, he hasn't even started the job. And it's tough to slot you 
again something when you're not back yet. Having you in house is 
absolutely going to make it easy to say hey plug you into this project. 

2015-08-28 

11:26:41, Fri 

INBOX 

Where is he sitting? 1 still haven't had a chance to talk to him about 
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He's not yet. But I met up with him in 
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old office yesterday. 


Just ran into JB and chatted a bit. 


i Did you tell him needs help? 



foundation. Said Trisha and 
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n\nAnd started laying the 
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Heading Heading into sioc. Tty! 



Did you get laid yesterday? I didn't, am concerned that someone 
forgot to validate my time or something. \U0001f621 


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Ha. That is funny. Paid, not laid. \U0001f60a 


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Not sure why as it normally hits on Friday. Sometimes 

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it shows up later in the weekend as having arrived on Fri, but nothing 
there now. got hers as normal on Thurs. Because we (Bu) suck. 

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>®n\nAnd 



hi. Just got back from .. was there; saw him but didn't 

meet him. 

2015-08-30 

14:31:36, Sun 

INBOX 

Also, irritatingly, my unet password just expired so 1 can't get emails 
until 1 update it tomorrow. \U0001f62c so either text me or hit me on 
gtwn... 

2015-08-30 

18:18:49, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Not related, but this is also outrageous. 1 mean, come on. The woman 
needed all this outside employment? \n\nAn article to share: How 
Huma Abedin operated at the center of the Clinton univer$e\nHow 
Huma Abedin operated at the center of the Clinton 
universe\nhttp://wapo.st/lJAcrfVk .. 

2015-08-30 

19:32:25, Sun 

INBOX 

And blah, sitting on hold with 1500 trying to get my 324 email pin 
reset... 

2015-08-30 

22:07:09, Sun 

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Never mind. All my emails failed. 


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Send to gtwn? 1 think my unet password expired. At least it hasn't 
been working all day... 

2015-08-30 

22:09:59, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Nope, can't send from my Samsung, pics are on here. 

2015-08-30 

22:11:17, Sun 

iNBOX 

You might be able to text them. Mms is back to being enabled. 

2015-08-30 

22:11:40, Sun 

INBOX 

If they're in Knox 1 believe you can downdraft them but not sure 

2015-08-30 
22:23:07, Sun 


Nope, you can't. Just tried, \n\nls your email working, 

2015-08-30 

22:23:34, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Oh well that's annoying. 1 specifically took them in Knox so 1 could 
email them. 

2015-08-30 

22:23:45, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, just think I'm over my limit. 

2015-08-30 

22:58:10, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Resent them in smaller sizes. 1 think it worked. You'll have to let me 

know tomorrow. 

2015-08-31 

11:44:15, Mon 

INBOX 

Heading into sioc. Hope you get some rest. I'll check in later. 

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And please call today. 

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^d hi. Stupid 8:30 mtg. 



1 want to talk with vou. \U0001f636 

2015-09-01 

00:36:38, Tue 

OUTBOX 

It's fine. Getting up early to walk with anyway. 

2015-09-01 
11:21:32, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Went walking with , Told her 1 asked you about in 

case it ever comes up. (Just talking about people getting work done). 

2015-09-01 
11:24:40, Tue 

INBOX 

How on earth did you associate with the idea of getting work 

done? 

2015-09-01 

11:29:21, Tue 

UNBOX 

And yuck, heading into Jeh. DO NOT like my new schedule...:( 

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2015-09-01 
21:04:07, Tue 

INBOX 

Just got done with a non stop meeting since returning. 1 find I'm very 
tired... 

2015-09-01 

OUTBOX 

That's a lot of meetings. \U0001f61d I'm sorry. 

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2015-09-02 
00:13:49, Wed 

INBOX 

If I'm permanently back at hq. I’m sure I'll be willing to drive you.. 

2015-09-02 

21:07:44, Wed 

INBOX 

So 1 do want to know the answer to what you expect from lunch 
tomorrow. 


2015-09-02 

| OUTBOX 

Don't know. This was scheduled before the disastrous convo with he 

21:09:47, Wed 

* 

and Trisha two weeks ago, but yes presumably a follow-up talk. He 
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A)l'm glad you're doing it, keep the pressure on. 1 think his spec ass is 
the best option. Actually, special is the BEST option, he's ft2 . 

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21:24:49, Wed 

OUTBOX 

A} yeah, pretty demoralized by the whole thing. 

2015-09-02 
21:25:46, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Not sure if Trisha will be there or not. Kind of hoping not, 1 can be 
more frank if she’s not. 

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21:26:21, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 might possibly maybe doubtful work for you someday, but definitely 
NOT as your special assistant. 

INBOX 

Don’t think she would be, right? 

2015-09-02 
21:27:20, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Well 1 sort of invited it last time only be 1 want this resolved and it's 
clear Jim won't decide without her. Understandably, but still. 

2015-09-02 

21:28:04, Wed 

OUTBOX 

She’s not formally on the invite so she or Jim would have to 
remember. 

2015-09-02 
21:29:12, Wed 

INBOX 

Then she won't be there... 

2015-09-02 

21:29:25, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yeah okay we’ll see. 


2015-09-02 

21:30:12, Wed 

INBOX 

Don't you brush me off! I'm wildly good at being a persistent pain in 
the ass too!;) 

2015-09-02 

21:31:24, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yes but 1 don't need you to be on this! 

2015-09-02 

21:31:25, Wed 

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21:42:29, Wed 

INBOX 

^■ 

2015-09-02 

21:54:27, Wed 

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L_ 

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1 am so proud of you. \u2764 

2015-09-02 

22:02:30, Wed 

INBOX 

But thanks \U0001f636 

2015-09-03 

INBOX 


11:45:26, Thu 


Heading in to sioc, 



ttyl. 

2015-09-03 
13:55:56, Thu 

INBOX 

Np. I've got meeting at State IG at 11, going over with around 

10:30. Should be back around 12:30, I'll hit you up then (1 know you'll 
still be at lunch) but we can coordinate then. 


INBOX 

Hey 1 know you're at lunch. I'm back at hq, grabbing &pizza 

2015-09-03 

17:43:10, Thu 

INBOX 

This is a serious meeting fatigue zone 


INBOX 

Heading into a 2 conference call... 

2015-09-03 

17:44:17, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Oof. 1 know it is. :( 

2015-09-03 
19:24:41, Thu 

INBOX 

Hi there. Have 1 mentioned ces can be frustrating? 

2015-09-03 
19:25:03, Thu 

INBOX 

lOn a positive note, wrap was cancelled 

2015-09-03 

19:25:11, Thu 

OUTBOX 

!Wow, that's shocking to hear.\U0001f612 

2015-09-03 

19:25:32, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yes, 1 stand by my initial contention that they suck. 

2015-09-03 

22:13:01, Thu 

INBOX 

Remind me to tell you the story about the 302s. 

Aggravating. 

2015-09-03 
22:13:41, Thu 

OUTBOX 

More? 

2015-09-03 

22:52:48, Thu 

INBOX 

i 

Hi there. Omg completely forgot it was Andys farewell tonight, just 
went by there. Me' talked about her campaign. 

2015-09-03 
22:53:26, Thu 

OUTBOX 

She's lovely, no? 

2015-09-03 

22:54:01, Thu 

INBOX 

Of course. \U0001f636\n\nYes, she is. 


2015-09-04 
11:39:31, Fri 

INBOX 


1 have my 830, then a briefing immediately 
afterwards at 930. Should be out by 1015 or 1030, I'll text you when 1 

am.... 

2015-09-09 

INBOX 

And unrelated, did you see the pics of the guy who accompanied the 

11:01:22, Wed 


KY county clerk who wouldn't issue gay marriage licenses when she 



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Her column was pretty funny today .\n\nA Presidential Primary Cheat 

Sheet http://nyti.ms/lQpSJCE _ 

Where are you meeting Aaron? Wilmer is close to Foggy Bottom, no? 

And yuck, almost at hq... 

Heading in, I'll text you when I'm done with my morning.session... 

Hi there. Headed over to wf to yell at some people to stop sniveling. 
U0001f621 


2015-09-10 

14:25:15, Thu 

OUTBOX 

How fun for you. Who's complaining? 

2015-09-10 

15:07:11, Thu 

INBOX 

K. Aaron just had to cancel lunch, so I'm flexible 

2015-09-10 
15:08:06, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Bummer. That stinks. Sorry. But yeah that we'II be able to talk. 

2015-09-10 
19:42:48, Thu 

INBOX 

Convo with Randy to tell you about... 

2015-09-10 

19:55:16, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Imsg, maybe in 10? 

2015-09-11 

00:31:06, Fri 

INBOX 

Remind me about Jeh roof, am and jg 

2015-09-11 

00:42:44, Fri 

INBOX 

And arghh. Really having a tough time with the decision we discussed 
earlier. Really wish we could sit and talk. \U0001f636\n\n 

2015-09-11 

00:56:41, Fri 

INBOX 

If 1 had to pick now. I'd say no thanks. Let me continue the current 
project 1 have and put in for 3 or 4 when they come open. 

Why do 1 want to be in a hurry to go anywhere for 

? 

2015-09-11 

01:45:54, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Didn't realize it would mean moving off current project - thought they 
would just tdv vou over. We'll talk. 

2015-09-11 
10:12:43, Fri 

INBOX 

1 think 1 could probably negotiate with Randy to stay on the team for a 
while, at least until it finally transitions to wfo. 1 think that’ll happen 
before Xmas, though. So really want to talk... 

2015-09-11 
12:23:28, Fri 

INBOX 

Headed into sioc...hopefully a quiet morning here. Ttyl. 

2015-09-11 

23:31:51, Fri 

INBOX 

Fwiw, Moffa thinks 1 should take it. 

2015-09-11 

OUTBOX 

You should. We can't both 

23:32:59, Fri 


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You have any idea this was coming?\n\nJustice Dept. Says Hillary 


Clinton Had Authority to Delete Certain Emails 


http://nyti.ms/lMhHPA3\n\n 


No idea about doj statement. We're trying to 


get a copy of original filing. We think it says she was requires to 
preserve copies of things that were records and could delete the rest 


but that the filing is being taken out of context and spun. But who 


What isn't clear from the article is whether or not they (doj) speak to 
the issue of whether or not she had authority to be operating off of a 
private server. 


B) is very nice but she's no Lisa Page. JG wanted something on 

Fri, So i sent an email this morning at 830 to her and oroposing 

how to handle it—crickets... __ 

So I think I've decided that I'm not going to start until Thursday my 
first week back, then the following week has a fed holiday so it's only 
a 4 day week, 

so I 

might take that Monday off as well, just so I can ease back in. 
Especially if it's still not clear what I'll be doing. \U0001f612 

Or in the alternative, maybe I'll start on Wednesday but just work half 

days thru thatfriday. __ 

Or, log into eras and do your mandatory training and milk another 
week. \n\nBefore you start working with |...;)_ 


! Talked to Gregg about Randy's offer. His advice is take what I'll enjoy, 
as I have options...plus a ton of more detail about upcoming 

personnel moves.... _ 

Be, not me. 

Yep. Seems like I want my cake and eat it, too... 

So that's a no cpc move? I still say start your ses clock, although 

there's no doubt you will have options. _ 

Np. Briefing to D we thought was on the 28th is now tomorrow at 

2....glad we 're s o prep ared...we will be, but still _ 

Yikes, but you'll be completely great... 

Honestly, l thought it was weird that he would let you brief clapper 
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I think he more wants insight now that Cornyn has called for a special 
prosector...anyway, should be able to imsg from 7-8 or so. 


Yeah, it is, but I'll try.:( 


No worries. I feel badly even mentioning because I don't want you to 
change a thing. Only letting you know in case you ordinarily would 
find vourself free...\U0001f636 


Yep. Until work Conf call at 815 


I hit you there. 


You still have your 830? 

Called Jim baker 30 minutes ago. Still haven't heard anything from 
him. 



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And even more \U0001f621, just went to log into eras and discovered 
some certificate was expired. So now I need to bring it in today. 
\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 


Although I know you're p*ssed about the eras stuff. Sorry about that. 

:( 


Super annoying, yes. 


Jims heading up to Harvard now. So he can't talk to you. Or the 
Director at 2:00. \U0001f612 I 


I know. I'm being awfully weak and needy. \n' 



I can't get my eras to play sound. Going to be a real impediment to 

getti ng m y trainin gs done. \U0 001f 621 __ 

You don't need the sound. Will take you longer to read, anyway. 
;)\n\nLet me know when I can imsg something 


Emailed eras lady, got sound working. 


Procurement training is fascinating! And so relevant! 

Was looking at the directors award winners. What was 

?\n\nAnd did you notice that there is an agent with the last name 
of' 'I found that somewhat spectacular. \U0001f60a 


| Will till you at lunch. And you're showing as "away' 1 - are you pulling a 
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Np. Hit me on email, heading back into sioc. Got you a headset for 

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Don't think 1 need it now, ! got sound working. But thanks. 

2015-09-21 

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Waiting on Randy to see if there's wrap - he's ead today and has a 

4:45 upstairs. 

2015-09-21 
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Just got done sending an email to Randy and everyone...God what 1 
would do to have you on the team. \n\nOf course that might just 
scuttle our Dlans for reform entirely.... 

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Your point? \n\n;) ...(I win)\n\nMy God 1 so 
much prefer being busy and engaged. And that's why 1 don't think 1 
can ultimately take the job, better to wait for the one that will be that 
way. 


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You wouldn't be busy there?\n\nfm glad you're alpy. 

2015-09-24 

11:33:24, Thu 

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Downtown traffic also super light. Email me if you want a ride as I'm 
heading into sioc now... 

2015-09-24 

12:14:48, Thu 

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Hi there. Just shot the sh*t with Randy for 30 minutes. Going to get 
Peets.. it's dead quiet here... 

2015-09-24 
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How was your convo with randy? Can 

you talk? 

2015-09-24 

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Yes! 1 can also give you a ride if you want... 

2015-09-24 INBOX 

20:04:12, Thu 

Have to head into sioc for Conf call, will be an hour. I’ll hit you here 
when done. 

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Hi. I’m done. Can you talk? 

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Hi ;)\n\nl hate DoJ.. 

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\nd 1 hate DoJ. Literally they have pulled 
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What's their issue now? 

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No email, btw. At least for once it wasn't the stupid phone's fault. 

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DoJ wants to I get they want to scope as 

narrowly as possible but they're creating a ton of extra work for 
everyone. nAnyway, now I have to go in 

tomorrow so th ey can look thru e mails. _ 


.1 know, me too. it completely sucks.\n\nWho is coming in to read 
emails? That also totally sucks. 


What a joke: \nStill, there was progress. Never before had China 
agreed with Mr. Obama\u2019s fundamental premise that the theft 
of intellectual property for commercial gain was off limits. After weeks 
of behind-the-scenes negotiations with the Chinese leadership, first in 
Beijing in late August and then with a delegation of nearly 50 senior 
Chinese officials who came to Washington quietly two weeks ago, 
Beijing agreed to wording that read: \u201cNeither country\u2019s 
government will conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of 
intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential 
business information, with the intent of providing competitive 
advantages to companies or commercial sectors.\u201d\n\nLimiting 
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Zuckerberg, Cook, Natella all seated at the the head table with potus. 
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Hig h-Tech Flavor http://nyti.ms/liR8KXb _ 


And God, that's an awful sequence of time stamps on your texts.:( 
I'm sorry.. ans are coming in. Not sure that they need to 

read them, but we're asking them to jump through their ass to act 
quickly, so not in much of a position to argue if they want to come in. 


And now have to prep Randy for Laufman because even though 

Randy called him after he 
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2015-09-27 INBOX We work 60-70 hours, easily, when we're cranking. I'm 

01:17:59, Sun reviewing DoJ draft to W&c now...\n\r 

2015-09-27 OUTBOX Yeah, but when I worked 8 to 7 with andy, I almost never worked on j 

01:24:22, Sun weekends. But yes, I get it.\n\r 

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ear, 

\n\nPutin is verv good. We're kind of suckers.... 

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He totally is. Makes some sense too given his training. 

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Yeah, but also a little crazy. He already threw out the "if 1 may use a 
term of intelligence professionals, these are active measures" (re 
alleged disinformation about Russia)\n\nl think the fundamental 
Russian character wants an oppressive showy slightly crazy strong 

man... 

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100% right. And plays to it excellently.’ 

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I'm doing infosec training while we 

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wait to go back out. \U0001f612 

2015-09-28 

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Sigh. And 1 just "failed" my veterans employment training. God they 
are so profoundly useless. 

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Yay. More time on eras....yes, it's awful 

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1 put in 11 hours total last week, so that should help. 


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Hey heading into hq. Hit me on imsg later. I'll try to get a pass and 

figure out wh ere to meet. __ 

1 Will do. I called and left yet another message for Jim baker. I think I'm 
just going to have to tell tomorrow -1 think we are planning on 
walking, no doubt she is going to ask when I returning and what in 
going to be doing. I am quite frustrated. \U0001f612 


unny feeling to have a PT test. It was such a regular 
part of the Army, it brings back memories, mostly not positive. Oh 

well. __ 

; You're going to be fine. 






Walked and talked with HWerrtokayl 

Will have 

to talk to you about it later, but if I had to bet, I'd guess I'm going back 
to nslb. Apparently Trisha has spoken to her and about it, is 
clearly where she is leaning too. 


Well, it's good 


in this instance. Of course I want 


to talk about it, not even sure if I can make it to lunch I 

> 

Hopefully she has some ideas about what happens if you leave in 4 
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But still, it's not the first time. 

! If 1 leave soon I think she just readjusts clients again. Whatever. 


What time does your fit test start? And seriously, don't be nervous. 

You'v e tot ally got this. _ 

WeiTBBnotgoing to. \U0001f612\n\nAsfor that 

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1 saw you, so don't say anything. 

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1 Didn't others on longer tdys keep their offices? 

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Yup. 


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It really is. Can imsg if you prefer 

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K. I'll hit you when test is done. Sorry about bullshit 

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Hey I'm going to head in to sioc to check in. Will come out around 
11:30 assuming nothings on fire. You can always email, too...ttyl 

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[_ 

1 should be free around 11:30 then have at 1:45 

conference call... 

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Aaaaand it turns out I'm not done. Stupid DoJ. Going to talk to 

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want? 

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Essentially, something to provide them the ability to not have to take 
a hard stand and say no to something defense counsel wants us to do. 

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They're awful. I'm sorry. 

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Yeah, when you deny the massacre of a million people over a hundred 
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Hey what’s our zip at hq, 20535? 

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That's true, \n\nl DON'T want to go to work today, 1 don’t want to 
fight at DOJ, & 1 don't want to fight the screaming 

people at headquarters who don't understand the subtleties of 
everything we have to do... 

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Yes. 20535. 

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Hi. To ces for proliferation portfolio 

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And holy sh*t destroyed ces and nsd at a meeting this 

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Been on the phone with so 
just as well. Going to start cooking in earnest now. 


Everything 

cool re ' _ 

Yes\n\nAnd yeah, he just wanted to vent about main justice being 
dicks 


Political dicks 


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Hey also heads up if you've emailed me today, 1 haven't been able to 
get it. I'm guessing my unet password has expired. 

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It's going to be ok at work. And haven't emailed you here, although i 
just did on gmail 

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My unet not working. 

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K, then I'm going to walk into sioc quickly 

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Leaving now. Also, play dumb with he's going to schedule lunch 

for tomorrow. 

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You clearly haven't read the email repartee yet. You update your 
password on Samsung? 

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1 did. 1 don't give a hoot about the email repartee. 

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No, just long. JG wants to go to mtg at State tomorrow...certainly 
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Who was going to be ranking? Randy? Jg certainly tougher, may be a 
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; Whatever here with DD? Not sure what that means. 


i probably try to leave around 2 again if I can... 


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Btw, went down rundown of who's going where with She asked 
if I had any leads on who replaces I said I didn't. \n\nSigh. No 
idea where I feel like I should go on this. It's not an obvious, oh, Pete 

should go for that job. _ 

Hey doesn't know I saw you earlier, right? 


Sitting waiting at State... 


Booooooooo. I do not like your absence as a result of your so-called 

"work." __ _ 

Sorry for the insane amount of absence. 1 spoke to jim, 
trisha, so at least that is all handled. _ 

Talked one substantive issue with trisha too, so that's good. At least I 
: hope. 


Hey heading into sioc, if you can talk, email me and I'll step out 


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Am also quite bummed about missing be I was hoping to get a 
sense of what I'll be doing/whether I can start moving boxes over 

(ag ain). God, moving sucks. _ 

Heading into sioc. Insg whenever, think about where we can link up. I 
have an 11-12 then lunch with 12-1 


in the times. Just sent 


i Yep just read it. Good thing they draw parallels of cases WHERE 
CHARGES ARE DROPPED as being the same as an uncharged 

individual. \U0001f621 ___ 

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And I'll get to return all the stuff I've been holding for safe 

keepin g...m ore :)...._ _ 

, whoever I see first. So probably \n\nMaybe. 
Depends on what my lock options are. I'm going to resist getting locks 
changed on my safe, etc. until I gave some sense of duration. You do 
still need to slip yourself some cash though. 


I'll definitely take my pen though. \U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 


We’ll see. You need to go exchange before it's too late. Though I can 
obviously live quite happily with what’s there now. \U0001f60a 


Yes, still need to muster the courage...\U0001f612 
Sigh. I suppose you can keep them at work indefinitely... 


|lhey're home, just need to reveal them finally. \n\n 
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Giacalone wasn't in again today -1 REALLY 
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2015-10-14 

01:09:09, Wed 

INBOX JG said he's out this week. Let me see what 1 can do 

2015-10-14 

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And Martin OMalley's a douche 

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Out the whole week?! Wtf?\n\nDon't worry about it If you can 

get one for just tomorrow, great. But no big deal if not. 

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I'm not watching. 1 can't tell you how little I care right now. 

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Yeah not sure what he's doing. But just saw a six month Mission Need 
pass for a CD4 UC. 

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Kind of a foregone conclusion but so much more substantive than the 
Rep debates 

2015-10-14 

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Which one? \n\nThat's nice to hear at least. \n\n 

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Which one what? 

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JG. Don't know what's going on this week 

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Which uc? 

2015-10-14 

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Oh wait, 1 do. Going to Canada 1 think. Maybe randy joining? That ring 
a bell? 

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4C. Not at all a mission need. Good initiative but not mission need. 
\n\nDon't think Randy is going. Is it wrong of me to think this 
is largely a waste of time? 

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It totally is. Andy NEVER traveled in that gig unless he had to. But 
whatever. 

2015-10-14 

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Ooh hillary Bernie throw down on 215 


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Gregg got cirg AD 

2015-10-15 

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Good for him. 

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Also remind me Baker WH story 

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Be SOC is at Columbia Law School at some GDark symposium. 
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16:47:40, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Still in the Onp. 

2015-10-15 
16:49:22, Thu 

INBOX 

Oh. Misread your lunch email. Why is SOC at Columbia and not 
or an attorney like Dr ANYONE who can speak 

substantivelv to the matter? 

2015-10-16 
00:43:54, Fri 

INBOX 

And re your last imsg, where does everyone think is going? 

Clearly I’d love 4 but it needs to be open 

2015-10-16 

00:49:16, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Okay.\n\nNo clue. 

2015-10-16 
00:52:37, Fri 

INBOX 

And I’m sorry, and 1 just don't get along? No. He insists on 

different investigative paths and encourages another field office to 
reopen a case (of , we closed. Promptly leading to 

discussion in 01 about whether the new office made material 
misrepresentations in their FISA application, leading to the case to be 
closed. 

2015-10-16 

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2015-10-16 

00:54:01, Fri 

INBOX 

He is unprofessional, he actively bears a grudge and looks to find ways 
to highlight that when he can, and generally vastly wildly over steps 
his role 

2015-10-16 

00:54:57, Fri 

INBOX 

He precipitates a formal meeting from Toscas to in which has 

to calm down DOJ. • 

2015-10-16 

00:55:08, Fri 

INBOX 

So yeah, 1 guess we just don't get along 

2015-10-16 

00:55:17, Fri 

OUTBOX 

she just wasn't going to get into it. But you're right about all of 
it, 1 know. 

2015-10-16 
00:56:19, Fri 

OUTBOX 

We also talked about what a blowhard douchy is and how she 

likes a lot of the agents and SSAs at wfo but that they seem to be 
going off the rails with vou gone. 

2015-10-16 
00:56:30, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm fine. 

2015-10-16 

00:57:02, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, he hates with an unbridled passion. 

2015-10-16 

01:01:34, Fri 

INBOX 

Sorry to vent. My point is short of douchyness you 

shouldn't hate so hard 

2015-10-16 

01:02:05, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Vent all you want. Doesn't bother me. 

2015-10-16 

01:05:20, Fri 

OUTBOX 

So. Guess I’m going to go now, unless you think you're going to free 
up or have more you want to say. 

2015-10-16 

01:10:05, Fri 

INBOX 

Just freed up. How come you didn't mention all this earlier?!? 



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01:10:26, Fri 

OUTBOX 

What a douche. And love that he got a secutity clearance - very 
rigourous review of his background obviously.\n\nAn article to share: 
He claimed to be ex-CIA and was quoted as an expert on Fox News. 
Prosecutors say it was a lie.\nHe claimed to be ex-CIA and was quoted 
as an expert on Fox News. Prosecutors say it was a 
lie.\nhttp://wapo.st/10FfROb 

2015-10-16 

01:10:55, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Forgot. 

2015-10-16 
01:12:37, Fri 

INBOX 

I'm really worried about wf. Yes, there have been a couple of issues 
since 1 left. Some of this is jackals haters hating (Hi \n\nBut it 

pains me because you want to be replaceable. Everybody thinks being 
irreplaceable is great. The opposite is true. You want to get everyone 
good enough that it doesn't matter if you're there 

2015-10-16 

10:05:32, Fri 

INBOX 

Spinning in my head, of course. Probably just going to go in. 1 have to 
get Gregg bullets for my PAR plus write 8 others. 



2015-10-17 

00:15:43, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Was thinking about it more, 1 think you could totally start the poem 
tomorrow by saying "Reading poetry, out loud, before a room full of 
people isn't exactly what FBI agents excel at, so we ask your 
forgiveness for any stumbles along the way" or something like that. 

2015-10-17 

00:17:52, Sat 

OUTBOX 

And just realized, never came. Not sure what happened. As 1 

was leaving he said he'd see me there.,. 

2015-10-17 

00:18:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Yeah, nor Andy or the DD. 

2015-10-17 

00:19:07, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Andy is down in southern VA. Ironman is tomorrow. 

2015-10-17 

00:19:10, Sat 
2015-10-17 

00:19:50, Sat 

INBOX 

1 don't know if 1 want to say that...too cute/familiar? Especially in 
front of ig, Randy 

OUTBOX 

Think it would be fine, but either way. 

2015-10-17 

00:21:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Oh. Thought it was local. better drag his sorry ass down 

tomorrow. \n\nAnd if this keeps up we might as well imsg. \n\r 





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Bod y _ 

Easy when your ENTIRE country is the size of Oregon. And when your 
colonial policies are largely to blame for the Israeli-Palesinian conflict, 
the India -Pakistani conflict, pretty much every place your colonial 
empire touched,\n\nAnd finally the why can't the US have an MI5, 
they're soooo much better than us debate has died. Pretty much 
every bss or sb guy I've ever talked to wished they could be us. \n\nl 
have a real problem with Anglophiles and the whole perception of 
bringing intellectual greatness to the world.\n\nAnyway. Hi. \u263a 


2015-10-19 
11:39:39, Mon 


2015-10-19 
11:42:17, Mon 
2015-10-19 
11:54:03, Mon 


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OUTBOX 


Can't talk, did you get my text? Of course et AL have had these 
briefs for god knows how long, I'm going to need to scramble to 
review them this am and figure out what we need to provide to doj. 

Yes, was just checking in case you might have hit traffic. 

\ U 0Q 01f636\n\nWhen'sthe dead I i n e to doj? Today? _ 

Of course the deadline is today. I said mid-morning. 
\U0001f612\n\nYeah, it was damn cold out this morning. Totally need 
your shirt, and thin gloves, and something for my ears... 


2015-10-19 
11:54:38, Mon 
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11:55:59, Mon 


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11:56:50, Mon 
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11:57:04, Mon 
2015-10-20 


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And just re -read 


comments. Looks like mid morning. 


Selfishly, the only good news in all of that is it may mean we can grab 
lunch, assuming you don't have plans. And I certainly know the 
comments do doesn't mean that they won't be calling long after that. 
When is DoJ's deadline? 


No clue. And yes, if 1 can work-wise, OF COURSE we're getting lunch. 

'Okay, got to put this down and hustle now. Sorry.:( 

I _ 

About my meeting tomorrow? Well whatever you did I didn't notice 

lit. 


2015-10-20 

23:29:14, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm not. ^n\nNothing but 

sweet re 

2015-10-20 

23:40:09, Tue 

OUTBOX 

So tell me! 

2015-10-21 

00:02:32, Wed 

UNBOX 

said all the stuff you were describing, she would be no good and 
have no desire to do. 1 told her that what you said was that you were 
largely the same. She said yeah, but seemed also to worry about it 

some. 

2015-10-21 

20:14:34, Wed 

INBOX 

Hi. \n\nOMG THAT WAS HORRIBLE. AN UTTER WASTE OF TIME AND 
TAXPAYER MONEY. \n\nWHAT IN THE HELL IS DOING? WHO IS 

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You still.get more done than 90%:of ogc' 

22:50:25, Wed 






2015-10-22 
13:09:50, Thu 

INBOX 

That stinks. I'd love to meet you but 1 can't. Have to talk to 
then 10 with then 1030 with ces then 11 with jg and toscas 

2015-10-22 

13:10:16, Thu 

INBOX 

Riding down elevator with and us atty, leans over and 

whispers, "so 1 hear you may not be coming back." 

2015-10-22 

13:37:41, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Wow, talk about the word getting out. That’s great 

2015-10-22 

13:40:40, Thu 

INBOX 

Saddest conversation with So many topics of general interest 

when we don't even need them! 

2015-10-24 

12:03:02, Sat 

INBOX 

Justice Department Wants Court To Force Apple To Decrypt iPhones 
Because Apple Licenses, Not Sells, iOS : BIZ TECH : Tech 
Times\nhttp://www.techtimes.com/artides/99132/20151024/justice- 
department-wants-court-to-force-apple-to-decrypt-iphones-because- 
appie-licenses-not-sells-ios.htm 

2015-10-24 

12:03:09, Sat 

INBOX 

" "Apple cannot reap the legal benefits of licensing its software in this 
manner and then later disclaim any ownership or obligation to assist 
law enforcement when that same software plays a critical role in 
thwarting execution of a search warrant," 

2015-10-24 

12:07:31, Sat 

INBOX 

To be clear, that's the govt's brief, not the article. Still, i like the 
reasoning. Yay imsg 

2015-10-24 

12:08:19, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Totally understood. My impressed was simply that we were taking it 
on. Clever reasoning too. 

2015-10-26 

23:31:54, Mon 

INBOX 

Sorry, was talking to |^^^|then WH. Just got done but need to call 
Moffa and 

2015-10-26 

23:37:05, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Np. Hope everything is okay. 

2015-10-26 

23:43:19, Mon 

INBOX 

Yeah. DoJ are putzes, man. 

2015-10-26 

23:44:07, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Sounds awesome 

2015-10-27 

INBOX 

Awesome not the word 1 would use. Just people needing to posture. 

00:52:14, Tue 



2015-10-27 

OUTBOX 

Yeah that was a joke.\n\nFine, but kind of odd. 

00:53:30, Tue 



2015-10-27 

INBOX 

Yeah i was kind of cranky, sorry i missed the humor. \n\nHmm. . 

00:58:24, Tue 



2015-10-27 

OUTBOX 

No problem. ^n\n 


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23:07:43, Tue 

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2015-10-27 

23:09:37, Tue 

OUTBOX 

2015-10-27 

23:11:16, Tue 

INBOX 

2015-10-27 

23:11:38, Tue 

OUTBOX 

2015-10-27 

23:12:25, Tue 

OUTBOX 

2015-10-28 
00:57:19, Wed 

INBOX 

Based on your prior representations to me that this group is entirely 
women, 1 can only assume my inclusion on this group text was in the 
context of cancelling the 8:30 so as to free to attend with you, 

not at the prospect of me attending. 

2015-10-28 

00:57:34, Wed 

INBOX 


2015-10-28 

00:58:40, Wed 

INBOX 

And yes, apparently is in OKC. 1 don't understand why she 

doesn't send I spent 8 months near there at my officer basic 

course and there is NOTHING to recommend it 

2015-10-29 

19:01:21, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Hi. Remind me conversation about you with andy. All good... 

2015-10-30 

OUTBOX 


00:44:15, Fri 


In this case, totally deficient NSL non-disclosure procedures. 
\U0001f621 

2015-10-30 

INBOX 

Yeah somehow I'm not surprised that they suck. 


00:45:56, Fri 


i 

i 


2015-10-30 

00:50:57, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Reading this definitely sucks worse. 

2015-10-30 

00:51:46, Fri 

INBOX 

You have a sofrcopy? Will read it while 1 wait 

2015-10-30 

00:52:26, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 wish. Just on red side. (Not class, just written there). 

2015-10-30 

00:58:52, Fri 

OUTBOX 

And god, these are so bareboned I'm not even sure where to start. 

2015-10-30 

01:43:12, Fri 

INBOX 

Hi. JG just called... 

2015-10-30 

OUTBOX 

He did? That's good. ’ 

02:36:45, Fri 






2015-10-30 

INBOX 

Got a tiny hint of some more info this 

10:07:30, Fri 


morning. Will tell you later. 

2015-10-31 

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2015-11-01 

OUTBOX 

And 1 hope Paul Ryan fails and crashes in a blaze 

23:21:36, Sun 


of glory. 

2015-11-01 
23:23:04, Sun 

INBOX 

Yes. And, me too. At some point the Rep party needs to pull their 
head out of their *ss. Shows no sign of occurring anytime soon. 

2015-11-02 
16:54:33, Mon 

INBOX 

Hi. Forgot 1 have lunch today with Iris and So that's nice. 

2015-11-02 
17:44:50, Mon 

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2015-11-02 

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2015-11-03 
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\n\nHow 

. .was lurch?____ 

No. Lazy entitlement. \n\nTold her she should go and we could tell 

her about the meetings afterwards. And re ust that I hadn't 
realized you and didn't like her either (a lie, obviously)\n\nAnd 
sorry, I can't. 


2015-11-03 

13:13:37, Tue 

1 OUTBOX ’ 

That's stinky. \U0001f621 Yes, 9:30, and lunch with Andrew. And need 
to rewrite the nsl procedures TODAY. When do you think you'll be 
back? 

2015-11-03 

14:13:25, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Lucky day - Andrew just canceled on me.:) 

2015-11-04 

11:17:02, Wed 

OUTBOX 

lost. What a f-ing disappointment. 

2015-11-04 
11:27:43, Wed 

OUTBOX 

52/47. I'm really so disappointed. What is wrong with people? 

2015-11-04 
11:48:51, Wed 

INBOX 

jiB) 1 saw. Disappointing, but look at the district 
map. Loudon is being gentrified, but it's still largely ignorant hillbillys. 
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2015-11-05 

17:28:19, Thu 

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Btw, just saw has a six month Mission Need pass... 1 

2015-11-05 
17:29:09, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, but she's an acting SC like so that's not so unreasonable... 

Though 1 appreciate your attempt to find fault.:) 

• 

2015-11-06 

12:49:15, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Hi there. 1 am both late and slow this morning. Seems unreasonable 
to have to go to work today. 

2015-11-06 

17:29:16, Fri 

INBOX 

He have a 1 hard stop? 

2015-11-06 

17:30:39, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Nope were going now. No clue how long. 

2015-11-06 

18:34:11, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Walking back now 

2015-11-06 

18:42:58, Fri 

INBOX 

K. Need to meet the Aussies real fast then free till 3. Jones wants 
closeout. \U0001f612 

2015-11-06 

18:43:29, Fri 

OUTBOX 

L, let me see of 1 can get my card fixed quickly. Going in to ofc now 

2015-11-06 

19:03:31, Fri 

INBOX 

Hi. Free... 

2015-11-06 

22:20:44, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Sorry got caught with Can call you from the car. 

2015-11-07 
16:56:35, Sat 

OUTBOX 

K. coming over in a second, but don't expect she'll stay very long. 

Just fvi if 1 am delayed. 

2015-11-07 

17:11:25, Sat 

INBOX 

Hi !\n\nDont know if you're interested but going to 

need help...not full time... 

2015-11-07 

17:43:55, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Hi there. I'm sorry. She stayed longer than 1 thought she would. 1 can' 
imsg now if you still can. 

2015-11-07 
17:44:31, Sat 

OUTBOX 

As I've told , I'll do whatever she wants me to. 

2015-11-07 

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2015-11-08 

15:14:42, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Going into the office I'm about an hour and send 

the procedures. (1 just went direct with Trisha - is fairly useless). 

but realize there's no reason for you to come 

to HQ this morning. 

2015-11-08 

15:18:55, Sun 

INBOX 

And is ENTIRELY worthless. Remind me story from 14. 

2015-11-08 

15:26:33, Sun 

OUTBOX 

The thing 1 most dislike - and even confirmed - is that if he screws 

something up, like he was supposed to tell me x at noon but didn't 
until 5, you absolutely know he will retell the story to a boss in the 
light most favorable to him. 


OUTBOX 

1 guess. 

16:36:19, Sun 




INBOX 

Can you at least take your phone inside of the conferences? If it's oi, 1 
doubt it. And that really sucks. 


2015-11-09 OUTBOX Nope I can't. It's in oi. 

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God that sucks. 

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2015-11-09 

13:01:51, Mon . 

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1 wish. Would have been the highlight of the day. 

2015-11-09 
13:04:31, Mon 

INBOX 

\U0001f606 and \U0001f61e 

2015-11-09 
13:06:42, Mon 

INBOX 

What time do you start? 

2015-11-09 

13:07:56, Mon 

OUTBOX 

9:00. But have to go to nslb first 

2015-11-09 
13:10:01, Mon 

INBOX 

That stinks. Heading into headquarters now. Should you suddenly 
want to run off for lunch, let me know. Although 1 may have to speak 
at WFO over lunch. 

2015-11-09 

22:20:37, Mon 

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2015-11-11 

13:41:24, Wed 

INBOX 

A) didn't get anything. Assume you mean unet emai!.\n\nB) ok. Then 
will plan on going in, hopefully it works out. 2-4 is best bet, obviously 
no guarantees? 

2015-11-11 

13:43:30, Wed 

OUTBOX 

B) yes 

2015-11-11 

20:14:17, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Hey heads up in the ofc, just walking out now. 

2015-11-11 

20:15:04, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 texted her earlier to see if she wanted to join is to EM, is just leaving 
now so just getting it. 

2015-11-12 

01:40:07, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Well 1 also paused be 1 didn't want you to freak out since it's a really 
remote chance anyway. 

2015-11-12 
01:42:12, Thu 

INBOX 

1 am of course going to encourage you to do it... 

2015-11-12 

01:42:36, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Sure it is. And seriously, you couldn't to worry for a year about 
something that is very unlikely to happen? 

2015-11-12 
01:54:45, Thu 

INBOX 

Tou should tell me - only makes it worse. I'm glad you did. And 
I’m going to keep trying to persuade you to do it. 

2015-11-12 
01:56:22, Thu 

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2015-11-12 
01:57:16, Thu 

INBOX 

And 1 told you aboul right? And we'll be having 

similar convos whenever 1 hit 12-18 months at HQ...\n\nWould you 
get some sort of housing help? TDY-type $ 

2015-11-12 

01:57:49, Thu 

INBOX 

He would love SF more than you even, right? 

2015-11-12 

01:58:22, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yes he would. 

2015-11-12 

01:59:54, Thu 

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Yes, he would. Have no clue about tdy money or housing. Obviously a 
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You should go to SF. I'll set a reminder to bring it up in April. 

2015-11-12 

02:25:33, Thu 

INBOX 

Of course. I'm going to drag you by Peregrine...When's your meeting 
with Trisha? 


OUTBOX 

Yeah, might not be able to. Mtg is at 10. Let me see if 1 can get on 
unet email -1 never remember how. 324mail.com? 

2015-11-12 

02:37:14, Thu 

INBOX 

Yep re 324 

2015-11-12 

INBOX 

What are you trying to 

03:03:47, Thu 


check, btw? DoJ comments? 

2015-11-12 

03:06:42, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Is it .com? 

2015-11-12 
03:07:15, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Have to meet with trisha at 10, need to at least know what they say. 

2015-11-12 

03:07:47, Thu 

INBOX 

Make sure you get the "s"\nHttps://www.324mail.com 


OUTBOX 

So weird. 1 couldn't type it directly into the browser but could follow a 
link. 


INBOX 

Yay. So it worked? 

2015-11-12 

03:17:27, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yes. And sigh, DOJ. Questions, questions, questions. 

2015-11-12 

03:18:37, Thu 

INBOX 

Of course. We're dumb - even retarded - and Not To Be Trusted. 
\n\nWho's providing comment from DoJ? 

2015-11-12 
03:19:02, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Oh, about 600 people. Nsd and civ. 

2015-11-12 
03:20:10, Thu 

INBOX 

Civ = crim? Ole? Oia? 

2015-11-12 

03:20:52, Thu 

OUTBOX 

No, the civil division at doj. The folks who defend us when we get 
sued, like over nondisclosure of an nsl. 

2015-11-12 

INBOX 

You can always sh*t can all of their comments - after you tell 

03:21:12, Thu 


Trisha 




2015-11-12 

03:22:25, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Some are okay.\n^jg|3S 

2015-11-12 
03:37:13, Thu 

INBOX 

Oh. Well that makes sense. \n\nMaybe. Don't trust DoJ. No reason, 
and that's unreasonable because most of them are just trying to do a 
good job.\n\n 





INBOX 

Oh. OK, good. 

2015-11-12 

03:37:55, Thu 

INBOX 

But not really. 

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Happy to. I have about 600 emails to respond to, which just isn't 

possible _ 

Yeah. Listening to the news, France's state of emergency allows the 
state to exercise censorship across all media and suspends 
requirements for warrants to enter private spaces. How's that 
transparency and privacy rights for vou, EU? 


Yeah, no shit. 




I'm just emailing with an 

this mandatory transparency scheme, just like the old days. 

_ ■ 

Hop to it! Stupid 

Somebody needs to ask how mandatory transparency balances 
against 127 dead in Paris. 


Yeah, no joke. And thanks for the sitrep. 


And check out the balls on France. Just like that and they're 

conducting airstream on Syria. __ 

Airstrikes, nor airstream. • 


Yrah, but, France. They're probably dispensing leaflets with insults. 


Sorry been having to restart to get coverage everybday. \U0001f621 

Sent. \n\nAnd I know. These are awful. I'm willing to bet it's the 
i software we put on there. 


:{I'm sorry. \n\nYou could do what a third of ogc does and just nap in 


Boo. Going alone to Peets. :(\n\nGood news other than Conf call with 
OTD at 11 and lunch with Bill at noon, I'm free... 


Spent about two hours shooting the sh*t with :oday. 

Was a nice time. The problem with is he is just so damn likeable... 


Hey have you told^^^^ that you're likely about to join the ses? 

You shou ld. J will be very proud. \U0001f60a _ 

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C) not yet. 

2015-11-28 

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22:38:23, Sat 


And what does have to say? 

2015-11-28 
22:39:54, Sat 

INBOX 

just wanted to shoot the shit. Talked about and everyone 

leaving, catching hell about trying to get in to his place in CT, etc 

2015-11-29 

13:18:26, Sun 

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And my unet password expired, this is buzzing every 15 minutes 
saying login failure. Highly annoying. Also aggravating because 1 keep 
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Yay. \u263a\n\nJust heard from D is coming down at 11:30, so 

won't be able to leave for lunch until noon. 

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So IOD Ops 2 SC just posted as well.... 

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You didn't say anything! !\U0001f636 

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Talk about 

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\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d! 

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So there's my serious proposal: figure out when you can and want to 
go, and I'll set it up... 

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'Cause that's not future doing it wrong insurance.... 

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Sorry. And got a 20 minute call from Gregg to come work for him and 
"run the Bureau's 140 airplane Air Force."\n\nThen dealing with 
stupid doj hesitancy to get us SW 

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\U0001f636\n\nHeading into sioc for 8:30. Hit me on email or 1 will 
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Omg have a story. Let me know if you can talk. It can also 

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Also remind me about Harbachs replacement 

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He’s not a mountain man looking guy, is he? \n\nAnd sorry, just got 
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Harbach's replacement. Saw and Rybicki with a huge strange 

man today. No introductions were made, but he was clearly with 
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Hmm. No, 1 don't think so. But that discussion not for here. 

so 1 can imsg, too. 

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So who is his replacement? What do you know? 

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1 just told you, not for here! \u263a\n\nAnd cone of silence, 
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Hi there. \U0001f60a Same here. Woke at 5, realized I'm at Quantico 
until 10 tonight, and went back to sleep. Of course now I'm 
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If you are, Moffa's job goes Monday - any plug for him would be 
appreciated. 

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And to confirm - you said it was ok to forward to rour email to 

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4nd 1 cannot think of a more qualified 
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4nd thank 

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you. \U0001f636 \U0001f636 \U0001f636 I'm suddenly really excited. 
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Don't be scared. 1 get it, but you're SO ready. You've already done the 
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It's not the job I'm scared about, but 1 am really scared about balance. 

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Make a pact more serious than the dedication 

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Andy, I'll be here every day going 110%, 




and I'm going to want to stay late every night, but you MUST make 
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Re your first, 1 just don't know. Of course Andy will be fine, it's me I’m 
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hope comes, too. She 



stayed yesterday for a Cyber guy that showed up 45 minutes late (and 
that we cancelled on due to end of day meetings). Hope that didn't 
keep her from leaving as early as she wanted to. And CyD is WILDLY 
disfunctional. 1 mean really bad. They can do individual investigations 
but there is NO coherent program management. And this whole 
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Don't know much about CyD, really. Haven't worked with them since I 
was a prosecutor.\n\nLots of socializing, but all constantly 
accompanied. 

2015-12-05 

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Also, had a dark moment of not being able to go to sleep last night, 
thinking 1 wouldn't get the job and having to save my pride by 
stepping down if that happened... 

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fou're going to get the job. Randy made that clear, for 
like the 100th time again yesterday. And truly, if something truly 
freakish happens there are a) other jobs, and b) you love being an 
agent and can always do casework. Not a sole who works with you 
would fault you being you being totally wronged and saying f it, I'm 
going back to street work. But truly, stop worrying. You're going to get 
the job. 

2015-12-05 

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It didn't feel that way at 10:50 last night...lots of well, what if 
puts in and talks to Bill, etcs... 

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That would be a grave injustice and it would seriously suck. But you'd 
get through it, people would know it was utter bs, life would go on, 
and you'd be stronger for it. 

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1 suppose. I am very good at reveling in insecurity. Did 1 send you 
"esponse to my email last night? 

2015-12-05 

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It's always nice to have outside confirmation of what you think. Of 
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2015-12-07 

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Np. 1 don't expect it will be done. But thank you for coming. 

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There's about to be an interview on NPR that I know is going to 
irritate me a Muslim leader who says it's not their community's job to 
look after itself because they're not quote law enforcement quote 


Heading in to hq soon. Will reach out after 8:30 


Hi there. Done with mtg. 


K I'm going to go back to sioc hit me on lync , 


Hi. Leaving now 


I'm still walking over. 


Yeah saw from lync you left late. And stupid 


stood you up 


As always. 


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Well he's an idiot. \U0001f636 I'm at Centrale 


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And in the "I'm awful" category, just explained I drew the intervening 
week and will likely have a ton tondo, including overnight (s). 


This is painful. Annual ethics training. 


Oh boy. Sec D is doing a mock court for their training. Scripts and 
everything. Apparently they have waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much time 
on their hands._;__ 


Oh good, now 


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is doing a Cl brief on the OPM breach. 


It sounds HORRIBLE 


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Now eap training. This is so painful. Stressors over the holiday 
season? You have got to be kidding me. This is a considerable waste 
of time. 


2015-12-10 

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You should start shouting at them. Liven things up.;) 

2015-12-11 

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And damn, Bowdich came across poorly in the most recent press 

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conference... 

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Aaaaand up early. To much exciting and important running through 
my head. Sent you a draft of email to Bill; I'd appreciate your review 
and comments. \n\nGotta get in and go through material for briefing, 
jShouldn’t be hard but want to get my head around it. 


See you in a while. Your 9 in cpc? 

Yes, 5096 or something. Everyone and their mother going, 
think Moffat too. Whatever.\n\nEmail looks perfect. Could substitute 
distribution for devolution, but both work. Perfect tone, otherwise 
totally excellent. 


|\U0001f636 thanks. 

,n\nWow. Yeah, Jon's analysts have been the ones going to the 
meetings, I think. And/or Dina got him involved. Not sure if he'll go 

since we have 10 with D. ___ 

Ah, forgot about that re jon. \n\nK, gotta hustle. Ttyl. 

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'answer to your Lync question, no contact. Didn’t pick up call to work 
or cell, and no response to my VMs on both. Whatever. 


i Missed the cute Christmas singing, but just couldn't get out of the 
office until 4:00. Oh well. 

No worries about I didn't show her the one in the 
box, I just didn't want you to show the actual ornament. No problems 

there. _ 

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Wow, I hadn't heard this.\n\nSystemic Change Needed After Faulty 

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Sigh. Never argue with a lawyer. ;)\n\nReading the mea culpa nyt 
piece... 


Want to give her gift before she goes and hit HH tomorrow eve. 

Just want to email JHBtow to let her 
know that I need to take some leave tomorrow. 


Still doing something to keep them occupied. 

11 will be in tomorrow mid-afternoon ish 
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Didn't you say you had to be in the ofc for something on Monday? 

I hope not otherwise.... 

Oh sh*t. And the meeting between the Office of Partner Engagement 

and CD at 10. _______ 

1 can miss that without a big problem 


So why not switch it around? 

Go into the office then head back home midday. 


What's better for you? 

What an utter idiot.\n\nAn article to share: Donald Trump on Putin: 
\u2018Nobody has proven that he\u2019s killed 
anyone\u2019\nDonald Trump on Putin: \u2018Nobody has proven 
!that he\u2019s killed anyone\u2019\nhttp://wapo.st/lPjfMkv 

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No doubt. \U0001f612\n\nOk to gmail some pics? 

Yeah right no blech! Especially the last, likely initiated by her... 
\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d 

At hq..dropping off present 

Done. Just did TWO things to your office. \n\nThats what you get for 
your Ions executive lunches.... :D 


Serious question, is that a bad thing? \n\nAlso, remind me best quote 

ever from _ at his SSA meeting _ 

Ho boy. We are SUPER early. Been wandering the 7th floor for like 20 

minutes. __ 

Wow...there's a pretty cool hallway that I think may be the Secretary's 
corridor. AS couldn't get Giacalone in. \n\nls there a snackbar? 


Yup, we saw it, though we didn't try to get in, obviously.\n\nAnd 
jesus, we need thr next section chief engaged, and frankly the dad. 
Those folks care about rank, and we are definitely not sending the 

_ ri ght level folks. _ 

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And I'm sorry, all these troubles because of the move from Treasury 
to DHS? That's why all these senior managers with 15+ years are 
getting DUIs and not enforcing any rules? That suddenly sprang up 
over night? 

2015-12-23 
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Jim cancelled lunch. May be getting coffee at 11 with him, he offered 
but I think he was just being nice. Will let you know. 

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No, I'm driving in. 1 have no desire to spend anymore time on this 
bullshit.\n\nOf course I'm thrilled g that your lunch is not open. I'm 
sorry you don't get to see Jim, but selfishly. I'm happy. 

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Meeting him for coffee at 11'. Other than 2:00 with moffa. I'm free. 

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You want a coffee? I'm going to skip since I'm meeting Jim at 11 

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\U0001f621 stupid 

2015-12-23 
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Your call. Am done with jim, where should 1 meet you? 

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JG here don't come in 

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i 

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1 think the doj attorney in that story is with ccips. His name is familiar. 

\n\nThen 1 read this other article. Man, people are 

stupid.\n\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/l 

1/05/maryland-family-faces-harsh-criticism-after-adopted-daughter- 

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And re the article, yeah, Manassas, shocker. Same people who elected 
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It's sick, but 1 really like policy issues. And having tight deadlines. 

Sigh... 

2015-12-28 

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Is that what doj wanted? 

2015-12-28 

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You get all our oconus lures approved?;) 

2015-12-28 

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No, it's just implicated a much bigger policy issue. I'll explain later. 
Might even be able to use it as pretext for a call...:) 

2015-12-29 

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Email from further aggravates me. 

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Truly, wouldn't worry too much about involvement. A) she's in 

your chain of command (and 1 know attys are much more flat than 
agents about that) B) realistically not anything you're going to be able 
to do about it C) you're out of office without access to high side D) not 
hurting you (other than your ego). You're plenty talented. Everyone 
knows that. And you want to own your issue. Thats good and normal 
and everyone knows that, too.\n\nl know you know all this. Just 
trying to help you not let this be aggravating... \U0001f60a 


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Yup, nothing 1 can do about it. It's aggravating because I'm not one of 
the lumpies so 1 can handle my own sh*t. 


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I'm certain mows that. 

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Andy knows that 


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All the more aggravating then. 

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Look at the big picture though. It's less aggravating. 

You're fine. 

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Yeah, when Mark finally finds a job 19 months from now. \U0001f612 

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Well you can blow the sh*t out of some CP stuff in the meantime. 
;)\n\n(l'm NOT letting you be cranky thus morning - can you tell? Yes, 

1 know I’m wildly ineffective so far...) 

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So long as you realize it... 

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Just ran into leaving some meeting with 

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Hey heads up I called your desk but someone answered. 1 didn't leave 
a message but just fyi in case someone says a woman called for you 
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nl feel like my calendar is pretty full this 
week, have a vague sense of "better busy yourself up this week" if I 
recall correctly. I'll probably just go in and check email, but I'm not sure 
there's much else fun to do down there. 

\U0001f636\n\n Higher up work people (the 
ones you mentioned, Mark and JG, or Randy, for that matter) wouldn't. 
And yes. I'm TOTALLY the same. I may unnecessarily care what people 
think way more than you. I'm trying to get a comfort with sense of self 
where I don't care. It's not so much on the professional work side (I 
know I'm good enough that I can be confident and humble there) buy 
on the interpersonal side. 



No. Briefing on cpc issue 


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Hope you have a peaceful evening. Happy to talk if you talk with Andy 
but of course can wait. In that event I'll see if I can live up to my 
resolution not to hound vou tomorrow. 


He hasn't called, but in my sheepishness, I told him tomorrow was fine 
too. 


And respecting your family time (and probably driving you crazy) he'll 

wait... _ 

He just texted me to hit him up tomorrow, so that’s good. 


Ha. \n\nProbably right. \n\nJust calt him now? J*sus, get it over with. 


At a minimum he's got the drive home. 

No, he said tomorrow. I need to respect that. It's okay. I just meant it 
wouldn't help/hurt my sleep any more or less than it usually does. 

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am and only able to run out for a quick bite between meetings. It's 

going to be okay. _ 

I am staring at Jim Bakker, very animated, eating lunch at a window 
table at pq. Can't tell who the gentleman is that he's eating with. 


I can find out... 

Hi. News from Bill... 

Good lord I'm dying! Hurry up!!!!! \U0001f636 

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D) I'm not 

kidding, I feel like punching in the face. You're now being too 

nice. You can inform him ahead of time or after the fact of your 
investigative steps, but you're not asking permission to speak to 
someone at DOJ for fuck's sake. God I hate them. 


D) finally talked to him. I will dial back my judgment, he found stuff 
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And 1 had a sudden sad and true realization. You're going to leave the 

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do you ever go do something outside of (and below) that level? 

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1 know That's what I've been trying to tell you. Let’s pretend for a 

moment that they didn't all hate me. Even without that, it would be 
hard to go back. But with it, it's pretty impossible. 1 won't be gone 
forever, vou never know. 

2016-01-09 

15:55:43, Sat 

INBOX 

Damn right if 1 make it to DD I'll bring you back as GC. 

2016-01-12 

22:33:58, Tue 

INBOX 

THAT SUCKS!!! !!\n\nKeep your head up though, it will work itself out in 
a few months. Plus remember, job is going to be AWESOME. 


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I know. It will. It just sucks when it's otherwise so undeserving. 




And remind me what said about what she needs to do for herself- 
detail, special assistant, etc 


Andy (he chaired it, he was there), Mark, Randy, 


Wow that that was quick 

Others maybe offscreen but I didn't see. 


15 minutes top. No idea how I did. Don't feel like I was a total idiot, so I 

guess that's good. _ 

I know. Makes me worried too quick... 


Of course they got started late so maybe they're hurrying. 

Talked about figured that was.something of personal interest and 

discom fort t o four of them... _ 

! No chance. They have their decision. That's a good sign.. 

The Brutalism of Ted Cruz http://nyti.ms/lmSbi92 


And I was thinking, don't you think the D will tell you in person, since 
you're meeting with him anyway? Ooh, I really hope he 

does.\U00 Qlf60a\U0001f60a\U0001f60a .. . 

And oh holy sh*t, I forgot I had huge single source reporting that I was 
going to mention in the car! Remind me, though it may have to wait 

until this afternoon. ____ 

Ooh. Can you imsg it? i will tell you what I was going to imsg, 
scrambling to get out the door right now.\n\nAnd yeah, I thought about 
I that with D. Don't know if it will travel that fast._ 


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2016-01-16 

22:09:48, Sat 

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I'm getting aggravated with work. 1 need to realize that I'm not there, 
have a limited amount of the total info, and need to step back. 

2016-01-16 

22:11:34, Sat 

OUTBOX 

And it's not even going to be your job in about two weeks. Still, I'm 
sorry. Would it help put your mind at ease if you went in? 

2016-01-16 

22:12:48, Sat 

INBOX 

But it will be my job at HQ. No, I'm not going to achieve anything at 
work. If 1 were on the ground it might help but I'm not. 

2016-01-17 

01:14:23, Sun 

INBOX 

Oh. Yay. You may need to head into work on Mon for some unexpected 
issues on all this Iran stuff... 

2016-01-17 

21:59:38, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Hi. Just replied. That fox website has some amazing stuff. 

2016-01-17 

22:15:09, Sun 

INBOX 

Yes. Yes it does. Out for 5 if you want to email or imsg yourfavs.... 

2016-01-18 

01:04:39, Mon 

INBOX 

Oh Jesus Carlin is on 60 Minutes. Talking about Chinese theft of trade 
secrets. -nay be on there, too. God almighty. 

2016-01-18 

01:30:00, Mon 

INBOX 

IKB^fiBiSifiBSafi^ wasn't on it. 

2016-01-18 

03:13:35, Mon 

INBOX 

a freakshow 

2016-01-18 

03:14:59, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, that's what everyone says 

2016-01-22 

02:59:39, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey am 1 good to know that Jason is interested? He sent me a congrats 
email 

2016-01-22 
03:02:25, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 told him you got the job like not even an hour ago.:) 1 told him that 
you were looking, was definitely interested. 1 don't see why 



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2016-01-22 

03:03:52, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Not that you were looking, but that.you might be. Told him be 1 didn't 
want him to foreclose a possible opportunity in case you had a job and 
it worked out. So yes, he can know we talked. Only makes sense. 

2016-01-22 

INBOX 

He emailed me this afternoon. 1 told him i wanted to grab coffee. 

03:06:01, Fri 



2016-01-22 

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F*cking marchers making traffic problems ....\U0001f621 


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2016-01-22 

17:50:34, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, some extremely offensive video screens set uo in front of dist ct. 



1 truly hate these people. No support for the woman who 



actually has to spend the rest of her life rearing this child, but we care 
about "life." Assholes. 

2016-01-22 

INBOX 

And literally I'm the last car thru 4 lights as they shut down 

17:52:59, Fri 


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B) fortunately there will still be snow tomorrow. \nA) special counsel 
implies an ogc position, though, right? And would you get those emails 
if you weren't in OGC? Regardless, that worry about lane will resolve 
itself out once you get a chance to start working. One of those 
impossible to know now. But it will be fine. 1 promise. 

2016-01-24 

21:59:19, Sun 

INBOX 

Is your title that big a deal to you at the end of the day? Not saying it 
shouldn't be, just trying to understand where it ranks within your 
priorities. 

2016-01-24 

22:01:53, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I'm not sure 1 agree. If trisha's whole point of putting :here is to 

ensure more reliance on ogc, I'm not sure she's embrace me acting 
pretty independently, which is the only way 1 know how to be. Will 
forward a couple of emails - not a perfect example but maybe a little 
demonstrative. There are other "special counsels", the D's, one in OCA. 
I'm sure they're grandfathered, but 1 don't think Jim or especially trisha 
will want me to suggest I'm a lawyer if I'm not in ogc. 

2016-01-24 

22:05:23, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Pretty important to me, actually. Especially if 1 plan to leave the bureau, 

1 want my title to reflect the work I'm doing. Wtf is a special assistant to 
the private sector? Chief of staff would be fine, but 1) that's not the job 
I'll be doing and 2) Rybicki has made pretty clear he's opposed to me 
using that title. I'm a lawyer, it's my identity, it's what I'd like to call 
mvself. ... . 

2016-01-24 

22:12:54, Sun 

INBOX 

1 

Completely understand. So stay in OGC and be special counsel. Why 
does JB not want that? Particularly if that means they have some 
connection to your job? A lot of OGC are dummies but Jim and Trisha 
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And you won't be COS...not worth fighting that for all the reasons you 
mention. 

2016-01-24 

22:14:41, Sun 

INBOX 

And you can act independently and have weekly meetings with her 
and/or Jim 

2016-01-24 
22:17:18, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I'm not sure you're following me. 1 imagine JB and TA WILL want me to 
stay in ogc. What I'm saying is 1 don't want to second guess or worry 
about whether 1 am stepping on their toes, especially trisha be she's so 
hard to read, and is still developing her relationships with our execs, 
esDeciallv andv. 

2016-01-24 

22:21:59, Sun 

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Oh, I've got you. I don't have an easy answer, particularly if you want 
the special counsel title. If you do, 1 think you likely need to be in OGC, 
and you're going to have to feel out the relationships. JB will be much 
easier than Trisha. 

2016-01-24 
22:23:32, Sun 

INBOX 

Because in some ways you are going to step on Trisha's toes. But I think 
if Andy is clear with what he wants (amd i think he will be) that will help 
tremendously. 

2016-01-24 

22:24:48, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Yes, she is entirely my worry. I've done this job with Jim as GC, and he is 
the least egotistical and most secure/non- threatened guy. We get each 
other. It’s trisha who will feel threatened. Plus woman thing. 

2016-01-24 

22:25:52, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 guess re Andy. But he respects hierarchy a lot too. 

2016-01-24 

22:37:47, Sun 

INBOX 

Well but HE wants you to work for him. So let him take the lead on role 
and expectations, and have that dialogue with J8, maybe without you 
there. 

2016-01-25 

02:16:32, Mon 

INBOX 

Hi. Been thinking a lot about you, your new job, jb, and Trisha. No 
spectacular insights, but looking forward to talking to you about it. 

2016-01-25 

03:43:31, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Oh good, me too, because I'm stressed. 

2016-01-25 

12:02:13, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hi there. Appreciate your email. If history is any guide, Jim will include 
me on most emails to the DD, so 1 realize that will help. How to 
navigate Trisha, especially if I'm still tied to ogc, and especially with 
in his position (and presumably still TIGHT with her), just has me 
stressed.\n\nAnd that's cool re 1 totally want to hear that story. 

And sheesh, SO military that both days he's sending emails by 5:30. 
Please do not share, nhviouslv 

2016-01-25 

23:52:15, Mon 

OUTBOX 

By Adam Goldman, no surprise. \n\nAn article to share: How David 
Petraeus avoided felony charges and possible prison time\nHow David 
Petraeus avoided felony charges and possible prison 
time\nhttD://waoo.st/lNvlhph 

2016-01-26 

00:11:44, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You need to read the article. A lot of inside 
information in there. And jesus, why is on every big case?! 

iust not that good! 

2016-01-26 

00:13:35, Tue 

INBOX 

Yes, and i did. Who's talking? I'm guessing. But also 

2016-01-26 

00:14:47, Tue 

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Yes to both, but we also both know a soon to be departing exec happy 
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Yeah but was he that intimately involved? Was that on his watch? 1 
guess the resolution was, right? 

2016-01-26 

00:16:29, Tue 

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Yeah, just the end of it all. 

HUH 

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And J*sus just pack it in and go home! 

2016-01-26 

00:19:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And remind me convo with e tdy vs permanent position. She 

agrees go permanent, thinks I'm right to be nervous about navigating 

TA. 

2016-01-26 

00:20:27, Tue 

INBOX 

Ooh. Def want to hear about that. How was her attitude about 

it? 

2016-01-26 

00:21:03, Tue 

INBOX 

If you weren’t OGC and couldn't have special counsel title, what would 
you take? You sure JB wouldn't let you? 

2016-01-26 
00:22:11, Tue 

INBOX 

Not sure the ins and outs of position creation. Think Jon went thru that 
when working for Bob. 1 can ask him in a general, non attributable way. 

2016-01-26 

00:22:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Attitude about what? \n\nTA not thrilled about my keeping the title, 
not sure Jim will care. also suggested special advisor, which 1 could 

live with... 

2016-01-26 

00:23:07, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Don't ask yet. Will let you know. 

2016-01-26 

00:27:18, Tue 

INBOX 

attitude towards you about you going to work for Andy. Special 
Advisor is what all the RPO folks were to various ADs. 1 think it's 
for example. \n\nOh, I could bring it up in no way related to you. Have 
talked about it a few times already, just in the context of him and 

Randv. 

2016-01-26 

00:28:21, Tue 

INBOX 

Also, you notice looks good in that article? 

2016-01-26 

00:50:15, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Didn't see a pic.\n\nShe seemed genuinely supportive and wanting to 
help me resolve my conflict. Think she’s fine with me working for Andy, 
obviously it's been known/expected to her since the beginning. 

2016-01-26 

00:52:25, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And what is there to talk about with Moffa? I’m not concerned about 
Andy's ability to get me a permanent gig with him. He's the DD. Plus 
he's been ADD, so he likely already knows what he needs to do. 

2016-01-26 
00:54:26, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Oh is characterized positively. Yeah, I noticed that. The likelihood that 
he was some strong advocate seems like revisitionist history. 

2016-01-26 

00:58:05, Tue 

INBOX 

Just the actual physical steps of creating a position. 1 know it can be 
done. Just the step 1 step 2 stuff. 

2016-01-26 

00:58:59, Tue 

INBOX 

Agreed re And makes me dislike all oitchy don't talk to the 

media implications. 

2016-01-26 

00:59:30, Tue 

INBOX 

Sorry if 1 missed you, this thing buzzed once with your last text. 1 hate 
these things... 

2016-01-26 

01:03:55, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, hold off for now re the position.\n\nRe suppose it could 

also be the usao. likes to tell people what they want to hear, 

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! Maybe. You don’t think 


would talk? 


! I totally do! J ust saying it's another possibility. 


Of course I'm sitting here thinking about you and your new job and 
want to talk about it... 



n\nAnd yes, realized I haven't yet discussed my ogcfsl issue at 
all with Not being a lawyer is a fairly big deal. I need to do that 


Oh god, that’s horrible. I'm so sorry. \n\nAndy is super busy -1 know it’s 
no consolation, but he's sudden facing a three (or two and a half, with 
dmv trip) day week. It's going to be OK._ 


2016-01-28 

00:19:13, Thu 

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Yeah, 1 know. 1 get all of that. 1 just need 10 minutes to put my damn 
mind at rest. 

2016-01-28 
00:27:22, Thu 

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1 know. 1 truly do. And i know i cant say anything that's going to fix that. 

2016-01-28 
01:51:32, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Sigh. And Andy just texted me the following:\n\nSo sorry 1 missed this. 
Crazy day. Trying to move our lunch to Friday?\n\nl told him that 
had told me and that 1 appreciated it very much. Sigh. Maybe one day 

I'll actually engage in a little less self-doubt... 

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Supposed to meet Bill this morning at 9. trving to make it. not sure 
about his schedule or roads. 

\nd yay on office. \U0001f636\n\nAnd was thinking Andy may be 
entirely consumed by Oregon thing right now. Mark was when 1 last 
hripfed D. and thev hadn't even sons overt vet.... 

2016-01-28 
12:08:47, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 know, 1 know. He's super busy. Sounds like he and had a good 
convo though, and now he's anxious (in a good way) to hear what we 
have to say. So hopefully lunch with him actually sticks tomorrow. 

2016-01-28 

12:58:50, Thu 

INBOX 

Unrelated, re you think 1 should talk to or First? Or 

together? 

2016-01-28 

13:03:18, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Thank you. \U0001f636\n\nl think you should talk to and 

together first, and just recount what you intend to say. 1 mentioned 
what we had talked about to when she came over, but only briefly. 

Then ask them whether you talk to alone or with 

2016-01-28 
13:06:53, Thu 

INBOX 

Ok thanks.' 

2016-01-29 
00:41:27, Fri 

INBOX 

Did you milkshake with Talked and prepped anyway? 


Are you sneaking in lunch tomorrow EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE BEEN 


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We didn't get milkshake but we did prep our list, and we are going to 
sneak in lunch (no joke). Why is your day so full now? 

2016-01-29 
00:56:20, Fri 

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Meeting agents in town on some 

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Remind me, 1 remember the Rybicki story and 1 have an andy car story. 


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Hi. 1 like my new job. \U0001f60a 

2016-01-29 

17:29:24, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yay. And DD thing is at 1:00. Still in with andy. 

2016-01-29 
17:54:07, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Hey, just finished with andy, this is going to be great. 
\U0001f60a\n\nWalking down with in 2, hopefully see you there. 

2016-01-30 

08:08:18, Sat 

INBOX 

Hi there. Wide, wide awake. 13,742 things to worry about in my new 
job. \U0001f61e Nothing like self-doubt in the dead of the night... 

2016-01-30 

10:42:18, Sat 

OUTBOX 

fou were born to do this job. *1* have zero doubt. You're 
going to be amazing. 

2016-01-30 

12:10:58, Sat 

INBOX 

Sigh. I've got to figure out staffing. 1 need a squared away assistant SC, 
and that's assuming 1 can move along the current one. Plus UCs. 
hasn't said anything, which is easy enough, I'll reach out to him, 
although he can be wishy washy a bout what he wants. \n\nAnyway. Hi. 
Doing it wrong, so I'll try and dial back now, having failed three and a 
half hours aeo.... 

2016-01-30 
12:13:34, Sat 

OUTBOX 

You are smart and good. People will want to work for you. \n\nAs.for 
Jason, he's wildly sensitive to hierarchy and people's time. I'm sure he's 
just waiting for vou to reach out. 

2016-01-30 

12:41:09, Sat 

INBOX 

And hey, what was the upshot of where you're sitting for the next 30 
days. Where you are now? 

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\U0001f633\n\nStaying where 1 am for 

30 days. 1 offered it, he was grateful be the politics of space are super 
jacked up there right now. 

2016-01-30 

12:47:46, Sat 

INBOX 

Does he want the CMS room up there? Too late now? 

2016-01-30 

12:48:16, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Didn't ask be it's too late now anyway. 

2016-01-30 

12:50:30, Sat 

INBOX 

And.God, other than the head of Partner engagement, get all those 
other assorted a holes out of there. ..Truly. Time to say, sorry, it's tight, 
and it's important. No, the CIO doesn't need to be there. Sorry 

Shut up This is where Rybicki could help. Be a COS - or 

gell, let the DCOS do it. But someone's got to be a heavy. 

2016-01-30 

12:51:13, Sat 

INBOX 

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And sorry we need your "war room." \U0001f621\n\nYou KNOW 

that was a okay to make that HER office, right? Move her on to the 
zero? 

2016-01-30 

12:53:27, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, that's not going to happen. 1 just have to be gracious and patient. 
Not mv strong suits, but I'll survive. \U0001f612 

2016-01-30 

12:56:51, Sat 

INBOX 

Oh, you can't say sh*t. At all. Andy will eventually become so 
exasperated about having to wait 5 minutes for you to walk down while 
all the worthless lumpies are RIGHT THERE that he'll blow his top and 
have someone do it. 

2016-01-30 

12:59:17, Sat 

INBOX 

Remind me to discuss interviews with you - who does certain ones 


2016-01-30 

13:06:47, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Interviews for what? 

2016-01-30 

13:08:14, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Oh, and you came up very briefly during chat with and andy. Remind 

me. 

2016-01-30 

13:09:32, Sat 

INBOX 

Will explain elsewhere. And a Q for you I'll send elsewhere. And 
what?!?!?!? Now I'm TOTALLY curious. 

2016-01-30 

13:18:28, Sat 

OUTBOX 

\n\n Nothing big. Just talking about getting 
his 15, being an agent came up, andy said to me 1 thought you were 
supposed to take care of this! 1 exclaimed that 1 tried, said yeah, she 
and pete, and 1 told him how you and ! would take turns harassing 

He chuckled. 

2016-01-31 

04:06:13, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 know it is. I'll definitely be in at some point, have to consolidate 
comments for another paper. Probably around 2:00? 1 will 

let vou know as soon as 1 have a sense of it. 

2016-01-31 

18:12:48, Sun 

OUTBOX 

No, 1 can't be the IOB I'm adjudication relates to a TS docket. And I need 
the application in front of me to explain what the order allowed, why 
it's an iob. 

2016-02-03 

00:34:54, Wed 

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INBOX 

Also, fYl, 1 just hit up and about the matter we talked about 

briefly just now. They owe me detail about what we’re going to tell the 

D, & 1 wanted to remind them it was still outstanding for our brief on 
Thursday. 

2016-02-03 
00:36:11, Wed 

INBOX 

Just wanted you to be aware of it in case you brought it up with her and 
conversation, that it didn't seem too coincidental. In fact, 1 guess it's 
fine, because it really is coincidental. Great minds thinking 
alike.\UQ001f636 

2016-02-03 

00:36:55, Wed 

OUTBOX 

It is, but! won't bring it up. 

2016-02-03 

00:50:33, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And 1 know who I'm going to ask about whether 1 should say something 
to Trisha - Jason Herring. 

2016-02-03 

01:13:08, Wed 

INBOX 

Good idea. Even with him in the Caribbean? Or when he gets back? 

2016-02-03 
01:27:19, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Will just email, say 1 have an interpersonal work question, not 
urgent.\n\nThought the more 1 think about it, the more 1 want to simply 
ask trisha to remove me from future requests, just have them come 
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The problem with that is if whoever gets the tasking has questions, you 
want them to go to you. And if Trisha does that (cuts you out), it 
creates additional work for her to be the intermediary, right?\n\nAnd, F 

2016-02-03 
01:45:19, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 really do hate him. Of course I'm swirling around and around and 
around in my head about what to do. 

2016-02-03 
01:50:11, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 really truly hate He is good at nothing, ineffective at 

nearly everything he does, and phenomenally lacking in self-awareness. 

2016-02-03 

01:51:49, Wed 

INBOX 

1 of course forgot it. Will need to ask when I'm not obviously on my 
phone. She didn't remember his last name...\n\nAnyway... is an 

ahole. Always will be. There is literally nothing you can do to change 
him or his opinion. And people realize he's a d*ck - so it truly becomes 
an issue of judging someone by their enemies. While it may drive you 
CRAZY, may be best simply to rise above this (never forget it) and take 

thp hipher rnarl 

2016-02-03 

01:51:57, Wed 

INBOX 

Agreed. So why do you give him any power over you? 

2016-02-03 
01:53:19, Wed 

INBOX 

He is inconsequential. His opinion holds no value to anyone worth a 
damn. He is one of the unfortunate dregs of society, and the fact that 
he behaves this way towards you does nothing but speak well of you. 

2016-02-03 

01:53:39, Wed 

INBOX 

Haters gonna hate. Shake it off.;) 

2016-02-03 
01:55:16, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Honest to god, I'm not this time. F him. The Deputy Director picked ME 
to work for him, and 1 goddamn earned it, and he will never be asked to 
manage anything important for the rest of his career at the FBI. The 
swirl is whether to say anything to trisha. Of course now I'm leaning 
back toward no... 

2016-02-03 
02:01:04, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Good summary of Not sure why they leave Snowden 

entirely out of it, but that's why that DB max schrems sued... 

2016-02-03 
02:02:21, Wed 

INBOX 

Lisa, that's all true. And if you want to rub his nose in it and destroy 
him, you can. This is not the moment. But honest to God 1 think that's 
the wrong choice. \n\nWhy do you think he's such a little prick? Exactly 
BECAUSE he will never be asked to manage anything important at the 
FBI. Feel sorry for him, not angry at him. He is displaying HIS weakness, 
his flaws, his shortcomings. Nothing else. Float past it unperturbed like 
the all star you are. Success is the best revenge. 

2016-02-03 

02:06:48, Wed 

INBOX 

And the higher you are, the more visible. The greater the number 

of fans. And the greater number of dB haters. This is a good baptism by 
fire. Because he's such an ass, hopefully it’s easier to move past. If the 
thought of him gets you down, then think of the response you got from 
and Randy and John and Andy. He will never get that. Ever. 

2016-02-03 

02:07:54, Wed 

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Okay. I'm not going to say anything. I know this is going to spin out of 
control (I'd bet any amount of money that he is going to tell KDM, who 
is going to feel obligated to say something to trisha, who I hope and 
pray will have my back and not assume I’ve done something to bring it 
on mvself). 

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Trisha knows you are imminently capable. She knows he's a d*ck. It will 

be o k. ,_ 

Yes, but my reputation is that I have "sharp elbows." So yes, I'm 
capable, but she doesn't necessarily know whether I played a role in 
this going south. 


One data point. She will have a thousand. And she already has many 

with you. \U0001f636 \U0001f636 \U0001f6 36_ 

Kill him with kindness. You have far, far - wildly so - more power. 

Why does HE bother you so? 


They all do. It's not just him. Honestly, because I'm painted unfairly. 
And I KNOW it's because of jealousy and I KNOW there's nothing I can 
do about it. But my sense of fairness is as foundational a part of me as 
literally any single trait I can think of. It's why I'm in government, why 
public service is a calling for me. So I think it is just very hard for me to 
let go when something is unfair. 


Yeah there's no good answer to the fairness thing, \n\nl lovehate him. I 
get it. 


Well, mostly hate. Shame\U0001f61e 

That sucks. I'm sorry. How are you feeling about after a night of 

ladmittedly poor sleep? _ 

! I don't know. Whatever. Angry. Resolved to leave ogc after this. 
Probably not going to say anything and will just steam inside instead. 

Well at a minimum, I think you should talk to Jason. Even if it doesn't 
change anything decision wise, it's another voice to confirm that you're 
doing the right thing, even if that's not particularly satisfying. 


Just had a great convo with one of the two new agents that the section 
picked up today. I knew her from WFO, public corruption agent. She's 
very excited and told me that she wouldn't let me down and that I 
wouldn't regret it. So that makes me happy.\U0001f60a 


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Picked up as an ssa? 


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Yes. 1 had nothing to do with the pick, so glad she's good. Don't know 
the guy from NY but the unit chief likes him and he's done decent cases 
in NY, so that's good. Need to get some people who actually know our 
work, though. 

2016-02-04 

11:19:17, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 am really tired of these feckless international bodies having opinions 
about sh-t they truly know nothing about. \n\nBBC News: UN panel 
'rules in Julian Assange's favour’\nUN panel 'rules in Julian Assange's 
favour’ - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35490910 

2016-02-04 

11:39:26, Thu 

INBOX 

Add it to the list of why to hate the UN...I mean, c'mon. Thats 
infuriating.\n\nSorry about all the sick. Depending on when my 11 with 
DoJ and ead finishes, may be able to give you a ride. 

2016-02-04 

11:43:21, Thu 

OUTBOX 

It’S just Utter bs. HE IS NOT DETAINED THERE. He is CHOOSING to 
remain there be he doesn't want to be arrested. Then he'd be goddamn 
detained. F-er. 

2016-02-04 

12:21:17, Thu 

INBOX 

And, to be clear, detained if he leaves because he allegedly raped 
someone. An alleged violent sexual assault. 

2016-02-04 

OUTBOX 

Yes. Poor Julian. 

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two stories, remind me: 1) Andy's Porsche is parked in the garage (he 
doesn't want to drive it home until the roads are less nasty) so let's go 
find it. 2) Figured out why s different - he's both very mature and 

wildly immature at the same time. Have the perfect story to 
demonstrate this, re Steinbach. 

2016-02-05 

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leaving, talked with JR just now and was able to answer Qs he hac 
ssci tomorrow. 

for D 


2016-02-05 INBOX And damn these 12 hours days are ROUGH 

13:16:43, Fri __ 

2016-02-05 OUTBOX It's good preparation for when you're DD. \U0001f60a 

13:31:41, Fri ___ 

2016-02-05 INBOX Only if you'll be the GC... 

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2016-02-05 

17:34:41, Fri 

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Or DGC. That would work, too 

2016-02-05 

23:23:22, Fri 

INBOX 

Have got a STORY for you. \U0001f620 

2016-02-05 

23:55:01, Fri 

OUTBOX 

What?!! 


2016-02-06 

00:04:32, Sat 

INBOX 

Work, but not for here. Agency F’ed uo big. Will get to Andy, prob Mon. 
Not telling you in that capacity, want to vent as a friend. Better to talk 
around it - how long are you at dinner? 1 can do a work call later or 
tomorrow.... 

2016-02-06 

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OUTBOX 

Hee hee, Andy is funny. He sent me his gmail, and said "Don't sent me 
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00:18:58, Tue 

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Could you resend that judicial watch thing please? 

2016-02-09 

00:22:10, Tue 

INBOX 

Is your mailbox full or something? My resend attempt is hanging in the 
outbox 

2016-02-09 

00:22:45, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Crap. Could be. 

2016-02-09 

00:23:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Just sent a third time. Looks like it went thru 

2016-02-09 

00:23:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Got it. Thank you. 

2016-02-09 

00:24:32, Tue 

INBOX 

Not a big deal re the letter, 1 can give you background on discussion 
about it between D and JB if you want. Was during the second to last D 
brief 

2016-02-09 

01:34:37, Tue 

INBOX 

Really interesting convo with from edva. Remind me to tell 

you. 

2016-02-09 

02:21:19, Tue 

INBOX 

He was an associate deputy director. Because we let those assholes into 
our organization without reciprocity. Because it's so great for us. 

Witness what you're watching. Thanks 

2016-02-09 

02:22:01, Tue 

OUTBOX 

talking iike one of us. It's offensive. 

2016-02-09 

02:24:40, Tue 

INBOX 

a douche. Another win for Kortan and the OPA machine... 

2016-02-09 

12:09:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I Miss Barack Obama http://nyti.ms/lmoVWIF\n\nHaven't been thrilled 
with him, but David Brooks is right. 

2016-02-09 

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|Un\nSanctions Lifted, American Tourists Head to Iran 
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2016-02-09 

12:58:43, Tue 

OUTBOX Okay and now I'm sick to my stomach. Andy is having us meet at 915 to 

1 talk about the D’s brief yesterday. 

2016-02-09 

13:00:10, Tue 

INBOX 

Lisa - it's going to be OK. Who’s meeting - just the two of you? 

2016-02-09 

13:00:26, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Everyone who was there minus 

2016-02-09 

13:01:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

With a disclaimer at the bottom that it was mandatory and no 
substitutions. 

2016-02-09 

13:02:06, Tue 

INBOX 

So why are you sick to your stomach? If he had any issue with what you 
did, he'd talk to you alone... 

2016-02-09 

13:09:41, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Could be a finger wag for all of us? Or me and Mike, but didn't want to 
iust single us out? 

2016-02-09 

13:10:46, Tue* 
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13:27:06, Tue 

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Me, baker, Steinbach, beers, and What else is it? 

INBOX 

Finish arguing out what you should have but couldn't because it was in 
front of the D. Worst case (and 1 think it's unlikely), he says hey let's get 
the debate done BEFORE we prep the D. Even that's not bad. 

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1 should have said something to him yesterday about knowing 1 
misplayed it. 

2016-02-09 

17:03:47, Tue 

INBOX 

It's going to be ok. You're in the club.. 

2016-02-09 

23:51:22, Tue 

INBOX 

And what makes me really angry about that Apple thing? The fact that 
Tim Cook plays such the privacy advocate. Yeah, jerky, your entire OS is 
designed to track me without me even knowing it. 

2016-02-09 

23:59:59, Tue 

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1 know. Hypocrite. 

2016-02-10 
00:02:58, Wed 

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And ha, 1 had mine already turned off. Apparently I'm paranoid. 

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2016-02-11 

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INBOX 

Oh, and remind me to talk to you about talking to Jim Baker about 

David. 

2016-02-12 
00:53:37, Fri . 

INBOX 

And remind me Trisha (and 1 don't know who else) had the idea of 
sitting in on all these final interviews. Apparently she briefed Jim and 
they decided no. Rubbed me the wrong way - if we're going to throw a 
third FBI person in there, put me in there, as the SESer, much like an 

SAC might participate. 

2016-02-12 

00:54:01, Fri 

INBOX 

Or at least ask the investigative team rather than being the good idea 
faries from on high 

2016-02-12 

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2016-02-12 

01:33:52, Fri 

INBOX 

Well, except Trisha works with Bill and JG. Though this ail explains JG's 
"you and Jon should go, split them up, with at all of them." 

Because he's got Jim and Trisha pushing her (as they did with 
at State, in front of the Deputy and the D, without raising it before hand 
-1 agreed to it, because 1 thought they were right, though 1 was a little 
cranky about being put into a spot where 1 would potentially have to 
argue otherwise in that group), and JG’s experience is having a senior 
guy there. \n\nBecause it's a great spot for me to be in to be telling doj 
"fewer people " while 1 simultaneously argue for two more for us. 
\U0001f621 

2016-02-12 
01:35:41, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Well it's an investigation, not a prosecution. So there might be more 
agents. 1 didn't totally follow your first paragraph. 

2016-02-12 
12:54:44, Fri 

INBOX 

There are a billion in the gym. Easy day. \n\nYep, also one of my SSAs 
stepped down to be a pilot and works out if Manassas. \n\nWhat IS 
doing about his SA application? 


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I'm SURE he left the car here while he is on vacation so we can do it 

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today.\n\nNothing. Not harassing him about it now. 1 get that he's 
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Should 1 talk to him about it? It's just that there's such a fine line 
between struggling and succumbing to inertia... 

2016-02-12 
13:29:31, Fri 

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No, not right now. Andy just started... 

2016-02-13 

03:27:02, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I'm no prude, but I'm really appalled by this. So you don’t have to go 
looking (in case you hadn't heard), Trump called him the p-word. The 
man has no dignity or class. He simply can not be president. \n\nWith a 
Slur for Ted Cruz, Donald Trump Further Splits Voters 
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2016-02-13 

03:28:49, Sat 

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Oh, he's abysmal. 1 keep hoping the charade will end and people will 
just dump him. The problem, then, is Rubio will likely lose to Cruz. The 
Republican party is in utter shambles. When was the last competitive 
ticket thev offered? 

2016-02-15 

00:05:34, Mon 

INBOX 

arguing about how great Bernie Sanders is and the evils of a two- 
party system. \n\nSigh 

2016-02-15 

INBOX 

YOU can explain 

00:17:45, Mon 


how Bernie isn't electable in a general election and it's more important 
to field a competitive candidate.... 

2016-02-15 

00:19:41, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, I'd be fighting the urge to be rude and dismissive and tell him he'il 
realize he was wrong when he gets older. 

2016-02-15 

00:21:57, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hell, at least be happy he's arguing for Bernie Sanders and not Ted Cruz. 

2016-02-15 

00:24:02, Mon 

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,nC) 

true re Cruz. THAT would be enough to put him on the street entirely. 

2016-02-16 

23:00:04, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Are you still at work? I'm so sorry if you are...:( 

2016-02-16 

23:38:15, Tue 

INBOX 

Yep been talking with Bill. Just got done. 

2016-02-17 
22:37:00, Wed 

INBOX 

I’m sorry. That stinks. Just pulled out of HQ.. sent me an email 

explaining she lives 100 miles (!) from the airport and has ALWAYS used 
a car service based on cost comparison. \U0001f612 

2016-02-17 

22:37:24, Wed 

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Well, yes. Except your cost comparison is wrong. 

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22:38:10, Wed j 

Oh sweet jesus. 

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22:39:54, Wed : 

She stopped by earlier but and were there. 1 am going to 

have her grab her UC and stop by. I’m in the process of deciding 
whether or not 1 talk to the unit chief, who approved it, before 1 talk to 
both of them 

2016-02-17 OUTBOX 

22:40:57, Wed 

1 probably would talk to the uc first. Just get a sense of it all. 


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Can't you look up her address? 

2016-02-17 
22:42:53, Wed 

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For sure. I'm going to have the UC do that. Good learning experience. 
\U0001f612 

2016-02-17 
22:47:16, Wed 

INBOX 

May also have him research the various costs of parking at Dulles, to 
ensure the cost comparison is right (it isnt) as well as the airfare from 
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|Still really want to hear about how it went with Laufman, and with Bill. 
I'm sorry I couldn't talk about it last night._ 


And of course I can't wait to tell you about Laufman convo, and Bill,, 




Oh god. Anc^^^^ is trying to explain/defend apple's position. 
Based entirely on the misinformation apple and privacy groups are 
spewing. 


I have a copy of you're interested.\n\n Justice Department Calls 
Apple\u2019s Refusal to Unlock iPhone a \u2018Marketing 

Strategy\u2Q19 http://n yti.rns/loPZDsj__ 

.In Nod to Law Enforcement in Apple Case, Obama Ends Attempt to 

S traddle Privacy Divide http://nyti.ms/lQooMH6 _ 

The times, for once, does a decent job of explaining our position, for 
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What does he think? 

2016-02-23 

01:51:05. Tue 

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It's interesting, I've got and David and him and everyone calling 

me to survey the terrain. 1 guess that's good. 

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23:54:20, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey 1 know your evening sucks. 1 need to talk to you tonight about 
work. Things went sideways with Andy and Bill. \n\nAt my desk, calling 
to see if he is still here. 

2016-02-24 
23:57:18, Wed 

INBOX 

Sorry, I'm busy. Call back later. 

2016-02-24 

23:57:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

He is I just got off the phone with him. He told me about wrap. 

2016-02-24 

23:59:51, Wed 

INBOX 

I'm talking to him now 

2016-02-25 
00:06:26, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yup. Though truthfully, I'm not sure 1 understand what the problem is. 

2016-02-25 
00:15:04, Thu 

INBOX 

Sorry still on phone. Issue is if Laufman makes himself one of the two 
DoJ, do 1 send the two case agents or insert myself. Andy told Bill send 
the best two. And what "best" means isn't clear to me in this context. 

2016-02-25 
00:15:28, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Best means best. It's not a trick. 

2016-02-25 

00:15:52, Thu 

OUTBOX 

If Laufman does that, then that's doj's loss. And 1 think warrants a call to 
his superiors. 

2016-02-25 

01:00:20, Thu 

INBOX 

Hi. Just leaving. Trisha still there (or at least her car is). Saw leaving, 
too, though be didn't see me 

2016-02-25 
01:02:07, Thu 

INBOX 

We talked about it, but "best" was not in terms of agents (though that's 
what 1 wrote). It's about what the best outcome is. 

2016-02-25 

02:20:31, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Do you or Bill fundamentally believe that 3 and 3 is the RIGHT thing for 
the case? If the answer is no, then you call aack and say we're good 

as is. You have never wavered from saying 2 and 2 is best. 1 don't get 
what the hesitation is now. 

2016-02-25 
02:52:46, Thu 

OUTBOX 

One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you 
need us going in there loaded for bear. You think she's going to 
remember or care that it was more doi than fbi? 


INBOX 

Agreed. 1 called Bill and relayed what we discussed. He agrees. 1 will 
email you and ;ame. 


OUTBOX 

Cool. You going to call back? 1 have one more thing to say, so long as 
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Hi. Just left andy and the seif is closed. \U0001f621 


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I wrote the following to andy: "Hey I'm sorry. It’s just wildly aggravating 
how much churn has gone on this. Have a good night."\n\nAnd he just 
wrote back: "Agree. Strongly."\n\nSo I guess it's all good. 


I know. It shouldn't, but it's killing me too. I'm really angry but I'm trying 

to calm down. _ 

It IS all good. 

I sent you the email and DoJ's response. 


This is what texted back: • 
I saw. I LOATHE the man. 


Weak. Not surprised though. 
Damn. 


I think it is disgusting. I'll have to hear how we ended up totally losing 
on everything. I've been around long enough to not be surprised, but 

just confirms we have no say over our own case. _ 

I know. I know. I'm sorry. 


2016-02-26 

01:58:00, Fri 

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‘So 1 look forward to that conversation 

2016-02-26 

01:58:18, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Does he know I'm working this behind the scenes too? 

2016-02-26 • 

01:58:19, Fri 

INBOX 

To be clear, those both were from Jon to me 

2016-02-26 

01:58:40, Fri 

INBOX 

No. Unless you want me to tell him 

2016-02-26 

01:58:51, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 think you should. 

2016-02-26 

01:58:51, Fri 

INBOX 

He knows we're good friends 

2016-02-26 
01:59:39, Fri, 

OUTBOX 

1 don't even have an argument for you. 1 mean, you know everything 1 
do. And Andy did fight, but at some point, to what end? 

2016-02-26 

01:59:45, Fri 

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1 don't know 

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01:59:48, Fri 


\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\n\nHe knows you put a word in 
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02:00:17, Fri 

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I'm stuck between two men 1 hugely respect. 

2016-02-26 

02:00:51, Fri 

INBOX 

Picking your battles, with a view from the very top of the agency. 
Because most big bureaucratic fights are never clear wins. 

2016-02-26 

02:01:18, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, I'd tell him. Because truly, I've done very little else the last couple 
of days. 

2016-02-26 

02:01:29, Fri 

INBOX 

This isn't a huge loss. We'll get a good interview. And if it isn't, we'll 
adjust. 

2016-02-26 

02:01:41, Fri 

OUTBOX 

And at the end of the day, it IS hard hill to die on to fight between 6 and 
7. 

2016-02-26 

02:02:14, Fri 

INBOX 

And for the rest of the time we deal with DoJ, we'll hear about "how we 
did it that time in 2016." 

2016-02-26 

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02:02:52, Fri 

INBOX 

Yes, hence Andy's 4 vs 7 argument 

INBOX 

Anyway. We BOTH need to move on for our sanity. 

2016-02-26 

02:03:06, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yes, 1 was just about to say the same thing. 


OUTBOX 

Hey, help me tomorrow to remember to order business cards. I'll need 
the link again... 

2016-02-26 

02:26:25, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Trying to let it go, but has Bill responded? 


2016-02-26 

02:28:06, Fri 

INBOX 

1 think Andy would tell him (or rather than not at all because he 

knew you were relaying to me, right? 

2016-02-26 

02:28:14, Fri 

INBOX 

What's never happening again? 


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02:29:18, Fri __ 

2016-02-26 OUTBOX iSo, re my cards, should I wrote Counsel to the DD or 5pecial Counsel? 

02:30:52, Fri _ j___ 

2016-02-26 INBOX Sorry, was on phone with . He is immensely relieved he doesn't 


I specifically asked if I should tell you and he said yes. 

Andy WILL travel...maybe not a whole day then, but a good chunk.. J 


02:36:46, Fri _ have to choose between himself or .\U0001f612 

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2016-02-26 

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Yeah well his is a cocksucker, he should still be stressed about that. 

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i I will. Don't think either of those is quite right. What's your agreed upon 
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Special Counsel. But truly, I can put whatever I want on them 


Mtg with 

the d is 3-3:30, but I think there's a high chance that it will go over. 
Normally I would just bail, but it's the d and an important legal issue. 


And I get three hours of Laufman and n two consecutive 

meetings this morning. Gosh, today's going to be great _ 


2016-02-26 
11:26:05, Fri 


2016-02-26 
20:58:36, Fri 


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INBOX 


There won't be. Bill has MYE wrap at 230, just like he did for DD's 
function. And if like the one for DD, for which I was late, I won't have 
time. 


..hope you didn't mind me 

busting your balls in front of Trisha. You certainly didn't mind giving me 
the finger in front of her. \U0001f609 _ 


2016-02-27 
21:30:05, Sat 


INBOX 


2016-02-29 
12:55:21, Mon 


INBOX 


I knowl I left it till the last second. Just spent an hour on conference 
call with Jon and giving them a dump and discussing path forward. 
\n\ nAnd hi. \U0001f636 _ 


So called JB on Sat night to complain about leaks. I need to talk to 
him today...._ 


2016-02-29 

12:56:25, Mon 

OUTBOX 

And how the hell does have Jb's cell phone number? 

2016-02-29 

12:57:55, Mon 
2016-02-29 

12:58:24, Mon 

INBOX 

That's the way Washington works. JB told Bill they've known each other 
for a long time. 

OUTBOX 

Oh. 1 would run by his ofc now - he'd almost always there by now. 

2016-02-29 
13:11:36, Mon 

INBOX 

Ok getting coffee - no time this morning -1 will try on the way back. 

2016-02-29 

13:21:58, Mon 

INBOX 

Jim in morning brief with D 

2016-02-29 

13:28:51, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Then 1 would try him again right before 9 if you can. 

2016-02-29 

13:42:26, Mon 

INBOX 

Will try. Just shot him an email asking for 15 

2016-02-29 

13:42:44, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Talk in 2? 

2016-02-29 

13:43:04, Mon 

INBOX 

Also 1 have your notebook. Nope sorry headed into dad mtg. 

2016-03-01 

03:07:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Just spoke with Bill, he's emailing and JB to get together first 

thing. 1 need to give you details. 




2016-03-01 

03:20:03, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Will try. Need to talk to then andy about 

2016-03-01 

03:20:16, Tue 

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2016-03-01 

03:23:04, Tue 

INBOX 

What 1 told Bill about you seeing jg 

2016-03-01 

03:23:29, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Ah. What'd he say? 

2016-03-01 

03:24:00, Tue 

INBOX 

And about me (actually us, again) seeing them months ago 

2016-03-01 

03:24:16, Tue 

INBOX 

He wanted to know if there were specifics rather than rumor and 
innuendo 

2016-03-01 

03:24:43, Tue 

INBOX 

All this makes me weary, 

2016-03-01 

03:24:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No specifics, just interesting timing. 

2016-03-01 

03:25:15, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 know, 1 know. 

2016-03-01 

03:25:32, Tue 

INBOX 

That's what we meant by specifics. Specifics about him meeting them. 

2016-03-01 

03:26:21, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Not following. It's not rumor, we/I saw them! 

2016-03-01 

03:28:05, Tue 

INBOX 

We're saying the same thing. 1 told him jg was close to them. He asked 
if 1 had specifics. 1 said 1 had seen him with one a few months ago, and 
that you had seen the three of them together last week. 

2016-03-01 

11:52:41, Tue 

INBOX 

'. \U0001f61e\n\nYou think wraps are generally going to go this 
late, or is this just a busy time?\n\nAnd that reminds me, 1 had wanted 
to ask you about your response to Andy's little dig on^J about 
having all kinds of free time in the 

2016-03-01 

11:56:10, Tue 

OUTBOX 

We stayed behind to try to talk to andy about but then that 

didn't even work.\n\nYeah, don’t think he totally meant it as a dig, but 
of course it was. 

2016-03-01 

12:01:14, Tue 

INBOX 

That stinks. But at least it’s an outlier in staying late, \n\nl wasn't sure. 

It had an edge. 

2016-03-01 

12:02:18, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, I'm not so sure it is. I'm getting more convinced that the last few 
weeks of ease were the anomaly.:( 

2016-03-01 

12:12:44, Tue 

INBOX 

Yeah it sucks, no question about it. Hopefully Andy and everyone will 
find a rhythm and it will get a *little* better. 

2016-03-01 

12:59:39, Tue 
2016-03-01 

13:01:46, Tue 

INBOX 

Hi. Bill going to brief Andy. knew not to mention yet, right? 

INBOX 

Also need to talk to you before you talk to Andy on topic 


2016-03-01 OUTBOX 

13:02:55, Tue 
2016-03-01 INBOX 

16:32:55, Tue 
2016-03-01 INBOX 

23:20:39, Tu e_ 

2016-03-02 INBOX 

01:19:48, Wed 


Yes, he will not mention. 

Hey got summoned to Bills 

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01:20:01, Wed 

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He asked me who I'd vote for, guessed Kasich 

2016-03-02 

01:20:11, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yes, they should. 

2016-03-02 
01:20:29, Wed 
2016-03-02 
01:20:39, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Seriously?! Would you not D? 

INBOX 

1 don't know. 1 suppose Hillary. 

2016-03-02 

01:20:46, Wed 

INBOX 

1 would D 

2016-03-02 

01:21:00, Wed 

OUTBOX 

He's doesn't think you're an R, does he? 

2016-03-02 
01:21:04, Wed 

INBOX 

VA's going to go to her anyway. 

2016-03-02 

01:21:17, Wed 

INBOX 

He thinks 1 wouldn't vote for her right now 

2016-03-02 

01:21:24, Wed 

INBOX 

He's knows I'm a conservative Dem 

2016-03-02 

01:21:45, Wed 

OUTBOX 

But now 1 wonder. 

2016-03-02 

12:34:34, Wed 

INBOX 

1 sent the email and my comments to Bill. Going to call him in 5 to 
ensure he got it 

2016-03-02 

12:36:00, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Good, is too much of a pleaser - I'm concerned he won't see how 

wrong her demand is. 

2016-03-02 

13:20:08, Wed 

INBOX 

Sorry. Thats aggravating. I'd probably cut him a little slack though. Bill 
apparently fired up a little bit, not in a good way. 

2016-03-02 

13:23:49, Wed 

OUTBOX 

How do you mean not in a good way? 

2016-03-02 

13:24:20, Wed 

INBOX 

Can you talk or imsg? 


2016-03-02 

13:24:34, Wed 

INBOX 

Worrying by nature 

2016-03-02 

13:25:15, Wed 

INBOX 

It can wait, and of course I'll tell you later. 

2016-03-02 

13:35:54, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Sorry. Leaving now. 

2016-03-02 

14:07:59, Wed 

INBOX 

Np. Just try and keep everyone calm and measured up therr 

2016-03-02 

15:01:10, Wed 

INBOX 

Sorry no was in my mye morning brief 

2016-03-03 

01:31:55, Thu 

INBOX 

Nyt article out. Not 

horrible. 

2016-03-03 

01:32:38, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, it seemed like much ado about nothing. Shall 1 send to andy? 

2016-03-03 
01:33:24, Thu 

INBOX 

As you wish. \U0001f636 

2016-03-03 

01:36:09, Thu 

OUTBOX 

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11:29:41, Thu 

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We're hosting a conference all day in 
Bonaparte -1 have to give the opening at 845 but have a lot of flexibility 
in the morning after that. 

2016-03-03 

11:31:31, Thu 
2016-03-03 
11:35:41, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'm not sure if I’m coming in but I’ll let 

you know. If not, probably won't be free until after lunch. 

INBOX 

Oh, that's right. Np. Steinbach wants to meet his SCs and up from 2-3, 
and I've got to talk to my DS counterpart whenever the conference 

wraps up. 

2016-03-04 

02:10:50, Fri 

OUTBOX 

God trump is a loathsome human. 

2016-03-04 
02:11:26, Fri 

INBOX 

Yet he may win 

2016-03-04 

02:11:35, Fri 

INBOX 

Good for Hillary 

2016-03-04 

02:11:51, Fri 

OUTBOX 

It is. 

2016-03-04 

02:12:46, Fri 

INBOX 

Would he be a worse president than cruz? 

2016-03-04 

02:13:14, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Trump? Yes, 1 think so. 

2016-03-04 

02:13:37, Fri 

INBOX 

I'm not sure 

2016-03-04 

02:20:04, Fri 

INBOX 

Omg he's an idiot 

2016-03-04 

02:20:33, Fri 

OUTBOX 

He’s awful 

2016-03-04 

02:21:02, Fri 

INBOX 

America will get what the voting public deserves 

2016-03-04 

02:21:36, Fri 

OUTBOX 

That's what I'm afraid of. 

2016-03-04 

02:22:11, Fri 

INBOX 

Department of Environmental Protection? 1?! 

2016-03-04 

02:24:25, Fri 

INBOX 

God Hillary should win 100,000,000 - 0. 

2016-03-04 

02:35:16, Fri. 

OUTBOX 

1 know. 

2016-03-04 

02:26:19, Fri 

INBOX 

What was that weird shiny thing on his lip? 

2016-03-04 

02:27:58, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 know. It was like a piece of food!. iays this keeps getting better 
every minute. 

2016-03-04 

02:34:56, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Also did you hear him make a comment about the size of his d*ck 
earlier? This man can not be president. 

2016-03-04 

02:37:06, Fri 

INBOX 

Yes 1 did. In relation to the size of his hands.\n\nAnd all the "Little 

Marco" blah blah blah 

2016-03-04 

02:38:08, Fri 

INBOX 

And God, Detroit used to be SO beautiful and shining and elegant. 
\U0001f61e Sigh. 

2016-03-04 

02:38:35, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I know. Detroit is really a beautiful city. Camden was too. 


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02:43:17, Fri 

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His flag is f*cked up 

2016-03-04 

02:43:53, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yes it is. 

2016-03-04 

02:54:35, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Stupid Pck. 

2016-03-04 
02:54:35, Fri 

INBOX 

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2016-03-04 

02:55:04, Fri 

OUTBOX 

God we're the same. 

2016-03-04 

02:56:09, Fri 

INBOX 

Ok 1 may vote for Trump \n\n;) 

2016-03-04 

02:57:00, Fri 

INBOX 

"And look, I'M OLD" 

2016-03-04 

02:58:39, Fri 

OUTBOX 

What?!\n\nPoor Kasich. He's the only sensible man up there. 

2016-03-04 

02:59:53, Fri 

INBOX 

He was pretty much calling for death for Snowden. I'm a single issue 
voter. ;)\n\nEspionage Machine Party 

2016-03-04 

03:00:23, Fri 

INBOX 

Exactly re Kasich. And he has ZERO appeal 

2016-03-04 

03:00:33, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Ah. Got it. Was re-reading the article so 1 stopped paying attention. 

2016-03-04 

03:01:08, Fri 

OUTBOX 

That's so sad. He's an adult who can be trusted. Why are we so 
superficial. 

2016-03-04 

03:01:46, Fri 

INBOX 

What article? Steve’s? 

2016-03-04 
03:02:08, Fri 

INBOX 

We like spectacle and combat. Our monkey ancestors 

2016-03-04 

03:02:29, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 can't accept that. 

2016-03-04 

03:04:50, Fri 

INBOX 

Why do you think we're so superficial? 

2016-03-04 

03:05:30, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 think because we're largely undereducated? 

2016-03-04 
03:08:13, Fri 

INBOX 

But that proves my point. There's some basic instinct it appeals to. 

2016-03-04 

04:01:45, Fri 

INBOX 

So just understand you don't get a fair and balanced (hey, it's Fox's 
night) viee 

2016-03-04 

04:01:52, Fri 

INBOX 

View 

2016-03-07 

03:09:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Okay, 1 guess I'm going to kill the light and try to sleep. Though right 
now I'm reading the latest draft in the apple litigation. 

2016-03-08 

00:50:03, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hey, andy has^^^m in the morning so if you're going to need 
early answers you won't be able to get them. He won't be at morning 
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2016-03-08 

00:51:51, Tue 

INBOX 

Waiting to hear back from Bill. I'm fine not having early answers - State 
may not be, but that's their issue. 1 don't think we want to push the 
issue thru Randy. 

2016-03-08 

11:02:55, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hey ust told me about having to meet with Bill and Trisha this am. 

Okay if 1 tell her we talked (that you called to get some insight about 
what went sideways?) 

2016-03-08 

11:11:25, Tue 

INBOX 

Yes re fell her 1 called you after 1 saw the email from Steinbach 

2016-03-08 

11:11:48, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yup, that's what 1 was going to do. 

2016-03-08 
11:13:23, Tue 

INBOX 

1 sent her what 1 sent Bill, can forward to you if you want, but she can 
tell you as well. Talked to last night as well, he was again 

changing it, and thought he would need to run up through NSD if we 
wanted to make the chanee 

2016-03-08 

12:48:04, Tue 

INBOX 

Trisha apparently trying to grab Bill and Mike at 745. So 1 have no 9 with 
Bill. 

2016-03-08 

13:03:29, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yup, that's what said 

2016-03-09 

02:26:40, Wed 

INBOX 

Emailing 

2016-03-09 

15:44:03, Wed 

INBOX 

K. Lync me when you get to desk. I'll finish. Re oca and briefing 
requirements 

2016-03-09 

23:03:25, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yes. But need to try to fix a HUGE who f-up. 


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23:41:44, Wed 

INBOX 

Pulling in now will drop off in garage 

2016-03-09 

23:41:52, Wed 

INBOX 

Meet me in my office in 3? 

2016-03-10 

02:31:31, Thu 

INBOX 

Though I'm exhausted. Talked with for a while about half an hour 

ago. He does give a shit, and he's not a bad atty. 

2016-03-10 

OUTBOX 

Both are absolutely true.' 

02:39:54, Thu 



2016-03-12 

20:58:35, Sat 

OUTBOX 

What the f is wrong with people?\n\nA Texas Candidate Pushes the 
Boundary of the Far Right http://nyti.ms/lQTqBqj 

2016-03-12 

21:05:11, Sat 

INBOX 

That Texas article is depressing as hell. But answers how we could end 
up with President trump 

2016-03-12 

OUTBOX 

Wasn't it? Seriously, how are people so incredibly ignorant? 


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2016-03-12 

21:12:46, Sat 

INBOX 

1 have no idea, but it depresses me. Same people who drive more when 
they get extra daylight from daylight savings. I'm guessing. 

2016-03-12 

21:21:03, Sat 

INBOX 

\U0001f621\nTrump Clarifies, and It\u2019s Worse - 
NYTimes.com\nhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/opinion/trump- 
clarifies-and-its-worse.html? r=0 

2016-03-14 

11:34:46, Mon 

INBOX 

1 don't know how you tell to check her email, but 1 cancelled the 

900 due to Jones scheduling a career board for his special assistant. 
\U0001f612 

2016-03-14 

11:53:08, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Don't listen to nprthis morning - is an uninformed 

douche. \U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 

2016-03-14 

11:53:28, Mon 

INBOX 

I'm in a bad mood. I'm really angry is 

taking up three section Chiefs time to do interviews for his gs-15 Special 
Assistant. A iob which is entirely unnecessary. 

2016-03-14 
11:53:43, Mon 

INBOX 

Yeah, 1 really don't like him. What did he say? 

2016-03-14 

11:54:39, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Totally unnecessary. He's awful. 

2016-03-14 

11:55:14, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'll tell you later He sucks. 

2016-03-14 

11:58:38, Mon 

INBOX 

You can tell me about and we can get indignant together. 

2016-03-14 

12:03:11, Mon 

INBOX 

Also, if you can, please don't forget to ask Andy about his plans this 
Friday. Fingers crossed...\U0001f636 

2016-03-14 

12:46:52, Mon 

INBOX 

Crank crank crank. Went back to my office to do stupid epas for job 
ratings. Now back to Jones 

2016-03-14 

15:04:48, Mon 

INBOX 

The new career board process is awful... 

2016-03-14 

15:05:14, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 can only imagine. 

2016-03-14 

15:06:52, Mon 

INBOX 

Geez no lie. Just looked at calendar. Your afternoon went to sh*t. 

2016-03-14 

15:09:54, Mon 

INBOX 

Going to talk to 1 will make sure to extricate myself by 11:30. 

2016-03-14 

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2016-03-15 

15:10:46, Tue 

OUTBOX 

speaking on DT. Very effective speaker. 

2016-03-15 

15:34:43, Tue 

INBOX 

Yeah, he's great.! love Fantastic search stories with him from back 

in the day. \u263a 

2016-03-15 

15:35:01, Tue 

INBOX 

He and his wife are the basis for the Jamie Fox movie The 

Kingdom. 

2016-03-15 

15:35:28, Tue 

OUTBOX 

That's neat. Yeah, he was a phenomenal public speaker. 

2016-03-15 

15:37:21, Tue 

INBOX 

How long does your thing go? 


INSOX 

Noon? 

2016-03-15 

15:37:55, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yes, though Andy is speaking at 11:45, but it looks like they're going to 

run over. 

2016-03-15 
15:40:24, Tue 

INBOX 

\U0001f615\n\nYou still have something fairly early during lunch with 
Trisha? 1 ask because 1 can't check because of course unet is still fed 

up... 

2016-03-15 

15:41:06, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 probably will wait to eat between 1 and 2 . Have a 12:45 with Trisha. 

2016-03-15 
15:44:00, Tue 

INBOX 

Boo. ;)\n\nl have my cd staff meeting...which Bill informed us may go 
extra long today. \U0001f612 

2016-03-15 

16:09:16, Tue 

INBOX 

And scrubbed my business cards, no mystery dot. Betting they’ll do 
another run for you. 

2016-03-15 

16:23:58, Tue 

INBOX 

Just ran into Told him he got rave reviews...he related 

leaving his cell up near the podium while Andy spoke... 

2016-03-15 

16:24:53, Tue 

INBOX 

And no unet stinks 

2016-03-15 

16:26:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He did. Andy^did awesome with it too. "Either there's a backpack bomb 
up here or someone is getting a phone call." 

2016-03-15 

16:32:39, Tue 

INBOX 

Stupid unet forcing me to do all kinds of work-arounds. How hard can 
this be? 

2016-03-15 

16:33:36, Tue 

INBOX 

• 

>aid he had some rejoinder back - something about not being able 
to get in...he said he realized he left his phone up there 19 minutes 
before it actually rang 

2016-03-15 

16:34:45, Tue 

OUTBOX 

W 

2016-03-15 

16:40:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Who is Greg Brower? He's getting his SES certificate with me on Thurs 
morning. 

2016-03-15 

16:41:18, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He's the new Tom Bondy. Head of Lit Branch. Former US Attorney of 
Nevada. 


2016-03-15 

16:41:46, Tue 

INBOX 

Damn. Impressive enough. Good guy? 

2016-03-15 

16:43:44, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Seems to be. Was also at (head of] EOUSA and GC at GPO 1 think? 

2016-03-15 

16:55:44, Tue 

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19:04:54, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm in a call with andy and when I'm done then 

grab food. 

2016-03-16 
04:11:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 can not believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious 
candidate for president. 

2016-03-16 

INBOX 

09:49:34, Wed 


|^\nhttp://mobile.nyti mes.com/2016/03/16/technology/apple-court- 
filing-iphone-case.html 

2016-03-16 

11:06:13, Wed 

INBOX 

And already driving to get info to Bill. 

2016-03-16 

11:45:04, Wed 

INBOX 

Complaint delivered, with copy for and Andy. 

2016-03-16 

12:05:35, Wed 

INBOX 

I'll wait regardless. 830 with Jones then 910 
mye. Should be done but 940 or so. 

2016-03-16 

19:44:56, Wed 

INBOX 

K. Finishing up call with hit me on lync or desk 

2016-03-16 

21:06:34, Wed 

INBOX 

Done? 

2016-03-16 
21:06:50, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Just waiting for baker, then done. 

2016-03-16 
21:11:39, Wed 

INBOX 

Our guy us talking... 

2016-03-16 

21:11:42, Wed 

INBOX 

Is 

2016-03-16 

21:25:55, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Rock on. 

2016-03-16 

21:26:45, Wed 

INBOX 

How'd your mtgs go? Still crushing the interagency policy process? 
\u263a 

2016-03-16 
21:33:05, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Damn straight.;) 

2016-03-16 

21:34:11, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Headed to desk just to check email then will pop down on my way out. 


2016-03-17 

12:18:33, Thu 

INBOX 

Just sent you calendar invite. Other option is the 30 minutes after your 
ET guidelines brief. (11-fsh, 1 think?) 

2016-03-17 

13:00:06, Thu 

INBOX 

And hi. Kind of wish you could have been there. \U0001f636\n\nRandy 
and JB both came over afterwards to sat congrats. Jim said, 1 guess 1 
assumed you had been (ses) for a while.":) 

2016-03-17 

13:09:42, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Wish 1 could have too. 

2016-03-17 
13:10:27, Thu 

OUTBOX 

My 4 30 just moved to 9 30 so now I'm scrambling. \U0001f612 

2016-03-17 

13:22:08, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Andy leaving at 2 today so afternoon hopefully more free. 

2016-03-18 

00:27:19, Fri 

INBOX 

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And it frustrates me, because Bill; at his 7:15, brings up the whole 
matter in front of his DADs. One who is acting for Dina. Who 
immediately goes to John and tell him how Bill is stressed because all 
the stuff is going on about a special prosecutor. Bill needs to learn to 
not talk to everybody about this when he’s upset about it. And I 
guarantee that agent, while discreet, is certainly going to tell at least a 
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2016-03-18 

12:06:06, Fri 

INBOX 

I'm sending to the 8:30 with Jones so that 1 can meet with John. 

2016-03-18 

12:46:19, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Did he go so far as to talk about why we started talking special 
prosecutor?! 

2016-03-18 

12:47:24, Fri 

INBOX 

Don't think so. In my office talking to Jon 

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2016-03-18 

16:32:45, Fri 

INBOX 

K. I'm waiting on ...\U0001f612 

2016-03-18 
21:13:53, Fri 

OUTBOX 

If door is closed, probably okay to knock if his secretary is gone. 

2016-03-18 

21:14:36, Fri 

INBOX 

Ok. You sure? And if she is. I'll just hang... 

2016-03-18 

21:16:19, Fri 

OUTBOX 

She leaves at 530.1 just asked. Jim behind dosed doors with Trisha now, 
so I'm waiting. \U0001f612 

2016-03-18 

21:18:08, Fri 

INBOX 

Is it going to be weird if 1 show up, given Trishas email to you last night? 

2016-03-18 

21:18:27, Fri 

INBOX 

And let me know when you go in. I'll wait 10 then walk up 

2016-03-18 

21:18:39, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yes, but remember, you're here to back brief on touhy. 

2016-03-18 

21:19:02, Fri 

INBOX 

Totally got it 

2016-03-18 

21:19:16, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm going in now. 

2016-03-18 

21:21:16, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Come soon 

2016-03-18 

21:22:38, Fri 

INBOX 

30 sec out 


2016-03-18 
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INBOX 


Hit me before you go, obviously. And J*sus how embarrassing 1 can't 
believe how out of breath i was. \U0001f628 


2016-03-18 

21:31:45, Fri 

INBOX 

1 mean that was weird.... 


2016-03-18 

21:56:57, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey, do you know if you're close? 


2016-03-18 

21:57:39, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Walking to my ofc now 


2016-03-18 

21:57:59, Fri 

OUTBOX 

You didn't need to runl 


2016-03-18 

21:58:38, Fri 

INBOX 

You said come soon!\n\nl was mortified! 


2016-03-18 

21:59:01, Fri 

OUTBOX 

' 

It wasn't that bad. 


2016-03-18 

21:59:14, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Soon, now now! Or immediately! 


2016-03-18 

21:59:59, Fri 

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Yes it was. 

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2016-03-18 

22:01:01, Fri 

INBOX 

That and i better up my aerobic activity.... 

2016-03-19 

00:42:58, Sat 

INBOX 

Thinking about earlier, 1 regret not saying more to.you and Jim. 1 should 
have said, 1 know Bill is out, but we talked last night. I'm out next week. 
Since 1 have you both, here are my thoughts because 1 know the 
message doesn't always make it cleanly to the top. Will do that next 
time. 

2016-03-19 

00:44:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Of course 1 might have still been so out of breath that 1 sounded like an 
asthmatic without his inhaler. \U0001f612 

2016-03-19 

01:07:44, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, would have been a totally reasonable approach. 1 didn't think of it 
either. 

2016-03-19 

01:14:18, Sat 

INBOX 

Sigh. Missed opportunity. Good news is I think the right message got 
through. Have it in hand for next time. 

2016-03-19 

02:22:25, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Sorry, have been on with Bill P for the last 45 or so. He hadn't received 
any back brief from Mike, which 1 figured, so 1 emailed him to let him 
know 1 was happv to chat with him on the dl. 

2016-03-19 

02:23:30, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 do like him. He gets nuance. 1 wonder if he gets intimidated/nervous 
around Andy, or the bluster of the guys, be he's much more normal just 
discussing an issue back and forth. 

2016-03-19 

OUTBOX 

I had intended 

02:27:23, Sat 


to talk to Bill this weekend or Monday and be in bed already, but when 
if 1 was free now there was no way 1 could leave him to wonder like 
that. 

2016-03-19 

02:31:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Re bill 

2016-03-19 

02:32:14, Sat 

INBOX 

1 think some of it is his personality. 1 think he's naturally sort of old 
fashioned gentlemanly in a Midwestern sort of wav 

2016-03-19 

02:32:48, Sat 

OUTBOX 

He is. 1 think he was pretty offended by my back and forth with randy. 

2016-03-19 

02:33:33, Sat 

INBOX 

It's not intimidation. Which is why 1 get a little angry at doing the 

imitation thing. He's not weak - to the extent he has a weakness, it's the 


over thinking earnestness, maybe thinking it's a tad bit more thoughtful 
than it is. But it is genuine without guile. 


2016-03-19 

02:33:55, Sat 

INBOX 

You told him? He should be. 

2016-03-19 

02:34:28, Sat 

INBOX 

He is paying the price for a number of aggressive but unthoughtful 
decisions by 

2016-03-19 

02:34:36, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 did. 1 gave him the same readout as you, full and complete. 

2016-03-19 

02:35:27, Sat 

-...___ 

INBOX 

I'm sorry 1 didn't tell you and Jim what I thought. Made the mistake of 
thinking you knew what 1 knew and therefore didn't want to repeat. 
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02:35:51, Sat 

INBOX 

Good and thank you. Not that it's my place to thank you, but hopefully 
you know what 1 mean. 

2016-03-19 

02:36:32, Sat 

INBOX 

So. Where does go next? Given Andy's preference, clearly 

replaces Eric. And Is done? 

2016-03-19 

02:36:54, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes, 1 think so.:( 

2016-03-19 

02:37:41, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Stb? What's his background? Science - at alt? 

2016-03-19 

02:38:07, Sat 

INBOX 

1 don't think so. 

2016-03-19 

02:38:23, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Adic? 1 could see that 

2016-03-19 

02:38:53, Sat 

INBOX 

Who knows. Depends on Andy and Andy and D. 

2016-03-19 

02:39:02, Sat 

INBOX 

I'm worried about Andy's response to him. 

2016-03-19 

02:39:22, Sat 

INBOX 

And if they leave him in CD AD for four years I'm done. is kma after 

me. 

2016-03-19 

02:39:39, Sat 

INBOX 

They won't, because that's too long. 

2016-03-19 

02:39:52, Sat 

INBOX 

But he'd do a better job than 

2016-03-19 
02:40:35, Sat 

INBOX 

1 actually think would be better than as Intel ead. But that's a 

weird call about what that job needs. 

2016-03-19 

02:40:41, Sat 

INBOX 

is young too 

2016-03-19 

02:41:13, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 know. I don't think andy meant to be mean. But you know I'll keep an 
eye out, and will say something if 1 need to. 

2016-03-19 

02:41:47, Sat 

OUTBOX 

is good simply because he can bust heads. And division is in 
desperate need of that. 

2016-03-19 
02:43:04, Sat 

INBOX 

You shouldn't, other than maybe the specific behavior. Don't think 
you're going to change anyone's perception. It's just unfortunate, 
because Andy is behaving towards him exactly as and JG and 

everyone behaved towards Andv. 

2016-03-19 

02:43:17, Sat 

INBOX 

Yep re | . Thats not 

2016-03-19 

02:44:28, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 know re Andy. But he is not naturally a mean person, not like or 

someone, so 1 do think it is an anamoly. But like 1 said. I'll keep an eye 
out. 

2016-03-19 

INBOX 

Did you tell Bill you told me as well? 


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2016-03-19 

02:44:55, Sat 

OUTBOX 

lldidnt. 

2016-03-19 

OUTBOX 

Didn't want to get you "in trouble" for not reaching out, since 1 reached 

02:45:33, Sat 


out for him on my own. 

2016-03-19 

02:45:33, Sat 

INBOX 

Is mean?\n\nAnd yes re imsg. Promise 1 won't keep you long. 

2016-03-19 

02:45:47, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes, he is. He's a bully. 


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2016-03-19 
07:14:54, Sat 

INBOX 

1 'm 

WIDE awake thinking about work. Processing what the team told me 
yesterday afternoon. 1 should have told you yesterday, i hadn't 
processed the significance of it until now. 1 will need to call this 

weekend. 

2016-03-19 

10:24:12, Sat 

OUTBOX 

So why the need for to be so decisive all of a sudden? You need 

to tell so she can start pushing this while you're gone. 

2016-03-19 

10:26:33, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Does his decision include no we're not going to ask for a waiver? 

2016-03-19 

10:29:02, Sat 

INBOX 

I'm not sure about any of this. Because often muddles things 

2016-03-19 

15:52:18, Sat 

INBOX 

That's fine. I don’t know what, if anything, Bill will provide me over the 
week. Jones will have nothing. 1 don't think you'll have the time or 
desire to rehash next weekend what happened on the case over the 
course of the week. I’ll go crazy without an ability to know what's going 
on, so I'd appreciate it if you would keep me posted if there are case 



updates /developments. 




2016-03-19 

16:01:18, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes, of course 1 will keep you updated re the things 1 have visibility into, 
though will likely be in a better position to report more granular 

case updates. 

2016-03-19 

INBOX 

Thank you. 1 appreciate it, obviously. You know i, like you, go insane 

16:25:31, Sat 


being out of the loop. And 1 won't abuse it. 


1 

. 

2016-03-20 

20:15:00, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Did she know about the reporting? 

2016-03-20 

21:05:21, Sun 

INBOX 

@ / @Whatever. It's passed. Just perennially irritating. \n\nDid 
call you? 

2016-03-20 

21:06:50, Sun 

INBOX 

Funny. She's stubborn that way. 1 could almost feel the couple of times 1 
encouraged her to do so that she wasn't going to. 

2016-03-20 

21:38:37, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 would have put a grand down saying she wouldn't. 

2016-03-20 

21:40:07, Sun 

INBOX 

Why? Not wanting to be reliant on you? Ego? Competition? \n\nl mean 
it was funny, 1 could literally sense it. 

2016-03-20 

22:04:44, Sun 

OUTBOX 

No, probably not wanting to bother. 1 hope it's not anything else. 

Though she will surely not like how involved I've been this week. 

2016-03-20 

22:12:08, Sun 

INBOX 

Well it was the right decision (your involvement). 1 told her you were 
since Bill was out. She'll understand, at least, right? 

2016-03-20 

22:13:42, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I'd hope so. 

2016-03-20 

22:29:08, Sun 

INBOX 

@ / @an't be on vacation while on vacation... 


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22:29:08, Sun 

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@ / \n\ni'm so so 

sorry. Hoping to call Bill tonight and therefore generate another 
conversation that 1 c 

2016-03-20 
22:29:39, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Why do you have to call him? 

2016-03-20 
22:36:07, Sun 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f5\u0402 a very bad idea. To tell him this isn't the same as 

or 

2016-03-20 

22:36:07, Sun 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f5\u0401A) to update him on what 1 just forwarded you. To 
tell him the IG's 

2016-03-20 

22:36:13, Sun 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f5\u0403Petraeus or whatever else gets thrown out there. 
\nB) oh, God. My ca 

2016-03-20 

22:36:13, Sun 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f5\u0404pacity for blech trumps yours a hundred times 
over. \U0001f615 

2016-03-20 

22:36:17, Sun 

INBOX 

C) you'd think. 


gill 

OUTBOX 

A) here's the thing re your ig point though: it isn't about accountability. 
Can you talk for 30 seconds? 

2016-03-20 

23:44:00, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 

And Eric Smith just called me to tell me two executives ( and 

had complained to him about me.! am so goddamn pissed 
about It was not an easy conversation for him to have, and I'm 

grateful that he did it. And now 1 want to curl up in a ball and die. Yet 
again. it's Lisa out of her lane. 

2016-03-20 

23:53:16, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 am so angry. And so upset. 

2016-03-21 

00:12:47, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Honestly, 1 should just step down. Why the fuck am 1 working my tail off 
and missing my family just to have people criticize my involvement in 
things? 

2016-03-21 

00:13:37, Mon 

OUTBOX 

And the worst part is that even if he agreed with me, would never 

say anything to "Agent code" and all. 

2016-03-21 

00:25:45, Mon 

INBOX 

\U0001f615 What happened? 

2016-03-21 

00:26:31, Mon 

INBOX 

Who's criticizing anything? I'm not following 

2016-03-21 

00:26:44, Mon 

OUTBOX 

What do you mean what happened? I sent you four text messages. Did 
you not get them? 

2016-03-21 

00:27:07, Mon 

OUTBOX 

This was the first text:\n\nAnd Eric Smith just called me to tell me two 
executives ( and , had complained to him about me. 1 am 

so goddamn pissed about It was not an easy conversation for 

him to have, and I'm grateful that he did it. And now 1 want to curl up in 
a ball and die. Yet again, it’s Lisa out of her lane. 

2016-03-21 

00:27:25, Mon 

INBOX 

No. None. 

2016-03-21 

00:27:58, Mon 

OUTBOX 

But you got the one about me saying 1 should just step down? 

2016-03-21 
'00:30:22, Mon 

INBOX 

@ 0/ @'m mid-dinner. I can step out right now, or can text freely a bit 
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00:30:22, Mon 

INBOX 

@ 0/ (5)\nl just got the one you sent, and the one about stepping down. 
Not the one you just sent about Eric. That sucks. And it's 

wrong and inaccurate. 1 

2016-03-21 

00:30:41, Mon 
2016-03-21 
00:31:08, Mon 

INBOX 

You need to talk talk to Andy tomorrow early if you can 

INBOX 

And don't you DARE step down. What in the F is jpset about? 

2016-03-21 

00:32:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 asked a lot ("too many") pointed questions during Brekke's DDPI. 

Again, when I'm on their side, everyone loves Lisa. But God forbid 1 
disagree... 

2016-03-21 
00:33:55, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'll be damned if 1 say anything to Andy. 1 am going to say something to 
Let's see him say 1 overstepped to my face, when I've had his 
back sooo many times. 

2016-03-21 

00:36:48, Mon 

INBOX 

1 think you should talk to Andy. Talk to , but Andy needs to know. 

Ultimately he's the guy your working for. 

2016-03-21 

00:38:14, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 will not have this conversation with him again. And as 1 said above 
(maybe you didn't get it), And the worst part is that even if he agreed 
with me, Andy would never say anything to "Agent code" and 

all. 

2016-03-21 

00:45:32, Mon 

INBOX 

@ 8? @1 got that one. It's not so much about him saying anything to 
(though he should -1 would). It's making sure he's aware and 
supports it. After all, 

2016-03-21 

00:45:34, Mon 

INBOX 

@ 8? @ Andy is the one who asked you if you had it and told you to 
brief rather than calling me or Jon up. So he needs to own the impact of 


that and support yo 


2016-03-21 

00:45:34, Mon 

INBOX 

@ 8? @u. Or at a minimum understand how that plays out in the mind 
of his subordinates. 

2016-03-21 

00:49:04, Mon 

OUTBOX 

If 1 talk to maybe I'll tell Andy the results of that conversation. 

I'm not doing more. But 1 am taking this week and giving serious 
thought to stepping down. 1 can save face, say it was too hard on my 
family. I'm doing this job for two years fearful of speaking up. 

2016-03-21 

00:54:49, Mon 

INBOX 

@ / @Fine. And you have an easy way out, which would save face. But 
you can't do that.\n\nDoing the job two years fearful of speaking up IS 
an option, but there 

2016-03-21 

00:54:55, Mon 

INBOX 

@ / @ are many - better - other ones. Ta Ik to Randy, then talk to 

Baker. Then talk to Andy. He wants you there because of who and how 

vou are. 

2016-03-21 

00:55:27, Mon 

INBOX 

Trust yourself. 

•2016-03-21 

100:56:24, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 don't have confidence that Andy has my back. He should, but 1 never 
operate with full confidence that he does. 

12016-03-21 
00:58:46, Mon 

OUTBOX 

My god, 1 am so hurt and so angry. 

2016-03-21 

01:00:46, Mon 

OUTBOX 


2016-03-21 

01:07:41, Mon 

INBOX 

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\u0500\u03f9\u0602mited ability. 1 promise everything will look better 
in the morning 

2016-03-21 

01:08:47, Mon 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f9\u0603. And I'm going to go find a Jake Sullivan quote 1 
found when 1 was 

2016-03-21 

01:09:59, Mon 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f9\u0604 prepping for him. \n\nHang in there. You're not 
wrong. You deserve t 

2016-03-21 

01:10:04, Mon 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f9\u0606e even more effective because of it. \U0001f636 

2016-03-21 

01:10:04, Mon 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03f9\u0605o be there. You can learn to negotiate all this sh*t 
and you will b 

2016-03-21 

01:33:50, Mon 

INBOX 

Hi. Home from dinner. Off to find that Sullivan quote. Missed Bill, so I'm 
just going to email him. 

2016-03-21 

03:08:51, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Where was outrage when 1 got the cyber PPD thrown out? F- 

cking hypocrite. 

2016-03-21 

10:18:43, Mon 

INBOX 

@ P? @Damn. Wrote below last night and thought 1 sent:\n\n Ok. Hope 
you can. I'm sorry about earlier. I'd be livid, and crushed. Good on Eric 
for calling. I want 

2016-03-21 

10:18:46, Mon 

INBOX 

@ P? @ to hear if he had any solution.\n\nBut if there's one thing 1 
would tell you, it's to trust yourself. You're excellent at your job, and 
bright, and deserv 

2016-03-21 

11:44:53, Mon 

INBOX 

@ P? @e to be there. Don't you dare step down. 1 won't hear of it, and 
wont let you do it. 

2016-03-21 

11:46:03, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, his solution was essentially roll back, know my place. 

2016-03-21 

11:46:49, Mon 

OUTBOX 

It's not your call. I'm talking to randy today, and jim. Maybe Andy. I'll 
decide at the end of the week. 

2016-03-21 

11:51:06, Mon 

INBOX 

F roll back. \n\nLisa of course 1 know it's not my call. I just don't want 
you making a hasty decision, particularly when you're angry and hurt. 

2016-03-21 

11:58:51, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'm not. I'm giving it a week. 

2016-03-21 

22:38:44, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hi. Was in one meeting after another starting at 12:30 and ending now. 
Spoke to neither Andy nor Randy. Leaving hq now. Still hate this place. 

2016-03-21 

22:47:38, Mon 

INBOX 

And damn that's a full day... 

. 

2016-03-21 

22:49:28, Mon 

OUTBOX 

To be clear, 1 had a meeting from 11-1145 as well, it just wasn't 
sequential like the rest of them. 


INBOX 

You work far too hard and too effectively to have to put up with the 
sh*t you're dealing with. 

2016-03-21 

22:59:01, Mon 

OUTBOX 

That is correct. And 1 STILL f-ing left later than 1 wanted to, doing work 
for the FBI. Walking in the door now. 

2016-03-21 

23:03:07, Mon 

INBOX 

\u0500\u0320\u0401The Bu is lucky to have you. I'll never forget that. 
\n\nDon't forget 

2016-03-21 

23:03:10, Mon 

INBOX 

\u0500\u0320\u0402 what you're doing is independent from these a- 
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\u0500\u0320\u0403al difference for the country. I mean that, in a 

sappy big R way. _ 

Yeah, Jim said the same thing. He knows he can get me with sap. 


\u0500\u0321\u0301He and I know we can get you with the truth of 

how important what w _ 

\u0500\u0321\u0302e do is 

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JM clearly spoke to andy about it tonight -1 left it up to him whether to. 

JM wants to talk tonight. ___ 

What did he think/say about it? Forgot he would have been in there as 
well. 


He wasn't. He was on A/L. 

Oh. You talked to him about it? What did he think, 

\u0500\u0322\u0301And hey, apparently I can't send email. 
\U0001f621\n\nl wrote back about Andy 


\u0500\u0322\u0302's, said that was good news, and asked you not to 
parse it out and 


\u0500\u0322\u0303spin unnecessarily negatively about it 


He just called me. We had a very good, very clear conversation that I 
am, generally speaking, not to change anything about the way l am 

engaging on issues. __ 

@ " (5>Yay!!\n\nrm so happy. Thats what I hoped but things get weird. 
\n\nl'm so so glad. You have to be hugely relieved. \n\nSo are you still 

going to talk to Ra ndy_ _ 

@ " @? Andy C? Eric? And if so, what approach? I kind of think Randy is 

the easiest, ju st straightforward. _ 

j\u0500\u0324\u0201And arghh. I'm frustrated I can't email out. 

I\n\ni'm so ha ppy, and so _ 

\u0500\u0324\u0202 glad he reaffirmed everything you are. Makes me 

like him more. \U0001f60a _ 

He is going to talk to Randy and Andy C. separately, then address the 
pother EADs more broadly. (Apparently Steinbach has been inquiring 

labout my role too). _ 

*Good. A nice stern cup of stfu would go a long way. 


Yes, he was very clear that particularly in that small group, he values my 
views as much as theirs (at a minimum), and that he fully 
expects/demands that I speak freely. He apologized for not saying 
something to Randy at the time, said he was so stunned he thought it 
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02:01:08, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 hope he is as clear and direct with them as he was with me. 
There's always that risk, but at least 1 know where I stand. 

2016-03-22 

02:04:04, Tue 

INBOX 

@ {" @Wow. Sounds like a really good conversation. 1 wouldn't hold out 
too much hope for a perfect resolution, but like you said, at least you 
clearly know whe 

2016-03-22 

02:04:06, Tue 

INBOX 

@ {" @re you stand. 

2016-03-22 

02:04:38, Tue 

INBOX 

\u0500\u0326\u0201And I'm sorry I'm not there, \n\nl want to talk all 
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2016-03-22 

02:04:38, Tue 

INBOX 

\u0500\u0326\u0202ou.\U0001f615 

2016-03-22 

02:07:31, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, same here. 

2016-03-23 
00:46:04, Wed 

INBOX 

Yes. Still there...\n\nYou being all fired up on the call certainly didn't 
improve matters... 

2016-03-23 
00:47:02, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Ha. Meanwhile 1 just feel like throttling DOJ... 

2016-03-23 

00:51:58, Wed 

INBOX 

Not to worry. I'm impressively, even stunningly, effective at redirection. 

2016-03-23 
01:51:47, Wed 

INBOX 

1 WAS TALKING WITH MOFFA! Sheesh. \U0001f60a 

2016-03-23 
22:50:26, Wed 

INBOX 

1 am getting aggravated at Laufman. If I ever get a data connection 
back, you'll see why. 

2016-03-23 

23:37:43, Wed 

INBOX 

@ H! @m but whatever. It’s just that nagging q uestion of whether 

Mike knows/appreciates who does and knows what. 

2016-03-25 

18:33:55, Fri 

OUTBOX 

K. Still in Andy's ofc, be down soon. 

2016-03-25 

18:35:08, Fri 

INBOX 

Bill wants to talk some more. 5 minutes. 1 can also meet you up there 

2016-03-26 

19:08:19, Sat 

INBOX 

sent me an article about an Israeli company an Israeli news outlet is 
claiming is helping us. Meant to follow up with you on your note last 
week. \n\nSigh. Just for a few extra hours in each day...\U0001f636 

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1 read it. 

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And "they" (DOJ, the hill, 1C) don't like when we ask them to justify their 
"need to know." 

2016-03-26 

19:13:02, Sat 

INBOX 

Yeah well that doesn't exactly change my point...\U0001f615 

2016-03-26 

19:13:31, Sat 

iNBOX 

Did you see the Hayden article from The Hill that 1 sent? Jackass... 

2016-03-26 

19:14:04, Sat 

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Yup. All these former intel guys just trying to make money. Forget when 
they came from. 

2016-03-26 

INBOX 

Oh he's all about foreign spying still. Just wants to be the simultaneous 


19:14:51, Sat 


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Just talked to Moffa. He's solid. Andy needs to start grooming him to be 
AD Intel one day.... 

2016-03-26 

21:57:51, Sat 

OUTBOX 

K. Will tell him eventually. 

HUH 

INBOX 

When are you going to talk to him? Are you? 

2016-03-28 

00:46:14, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Still waiting until Andy has spoken to them. And yes, 1 will. I have to. 

2016-03-28 

00:49:11, Mon 

INBOX 

The longer it goes, the harder it is for Andy to say anything. \n\nSorry. 

2016-03-28 

00:49:47, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 know. But he' has to. I'll make him.\n\nRemind me convo re he and. 
baker. 

2016-03-28 

00:50:10, Mon 

INBOX 

1 just want some time, let’s please hopefully fingers crossed try and 
take advantage of these days Andy is away... 

2016-03-28 

00:50:39, Mon 

INBOX 

Ok. Of course 1 want to hear it, particularly in light of what Bill said 
about Trisha. 

2016-03-28 

00:50:54, Mon 

INBOX 

Andy and Baker or Randy and Baker? 


OUTBOX 

Andy and baker. 

2016-03-28 

09:21:36, Mon 

INBOX 

Hi. Forgot I'm acting dad today. 7:15 with Bill. \U0001f61e 

2016-03-28 

10:01:24, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yuck. That stinks. Where's now? 

2016-03-28 

INBOX 

Who knows. Working on his United Platinum status? 

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2016-03-28 

16:11:56, Mon 

INBOX 

Just got done with Bill \U0001f612 

2016-03-28 

23:20:01, Mon 

INBOX 

Talked to Brian Brooks got answers to Andy's Qs about whether we 
could do anything forensicaily to accommodate DoJs questions at 
meeting. Short answer no, 1 can fill you in tomorrow if you want more 
detail or just let Bill brief it ud. 

2016-03-28 

23:29:49, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Of course 1 will want info directly. And good. We shouldn't be. can 

just get over herself. 

2016-03-28 

23:34:32, Mon 

INBOX 

Yeah that was my feeling, too. Brian offered several times to ask again 
and i told him that answer was perfectly fine, just needed to be able to 
say we did an honest ask at an executive level. Besides, I got him to tell 
me the whole story of the Apple thing. 




2016-03-28 
23:37:14, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hey, 1 was just following directions to keep it quiet. Everyone and their 
mother wants to know how we did it and who the third party is! Hope 
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23:37:32, Mon 

INBOX 

Also, the more 1 thought about the meeting this morning and what 
you're waiting on from it made me angry. 1 want - the team 

needs - your thoughts and input. 1 get you work for and advise him, but 
he's not going to relay to anyone, let alone me, your thoughts as the 
meeting is going on. You’re smart and your a good attorney and what 
you think makes a difference to more than just Andy. Anyway, 1 value 
your input and opinion and I'm disappointed i didn't get it at the 

mpptinp 

2016-03-28 
23:39:16, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yup. And it just makes me that much more angry that apparently now 

I'm supposed to add Bill and Trisha to the list. Whatever. Is what it is 1 

guess. 

2016-03-28 

23:42:16, Mon 

INBOX 

Not Bill 1 don't think. 1 really think he was relying what he heard, not 
what he saw. 

2016-03-28 

23:42:47, Mon 

INBOX 

And you know 1 defended you without reservation, and 1 believe he 
trusts my judgment. 

2016-03-28 

23:50:18, Mon 

INBOX 

And I'm not commenting on Trisha because 1 simply don't know. I'm not 
saying 1 think you do. \n\nAnd dammit 1 know super busy but 1 

worry she has too much going on. I'm going to ask her to have someone 
in OGC do the atty opinion process research along the lines of what you 
suggested. I fear too much of what we want and need to ask is going to 
be construed by DoJ as "opinion." 1 don't want to ask about each of the 
1500, but 1 do want to say, who gave you guidance about what 
constituted a record? Who did you ask or rely on to make a decision? 
Who and under what circumstances would you seek guidance from 
State? All "opinion," right? 

2016-03-28 

23:57:53, Mon 

INBOX 

Also - and you have to reply to each of these (this and above), dammit, 
don't skimp responses - where did Mike have to go? He left the last 
brief to the D 45 minutes early as well. Whatever. \n\nWhat points did 
you make to Andy in the meeting? 1 assume you'd relay to me at some 
point as you did the final one but 1 am curious as to your thoughts along 
the wav... 

2016-03-29 

00:05:13, Tue 

INBOX 

Finally, what is Andy/your understanding of what happens next after 
the meeting today? That we charge ahead with the two scheduled 
interviews provided doj telis Beth we aren't done and intend to 
interview about sort? 

2016-03-29 

00:07:27, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 do not agree that all are opinion. Opinion is about the attorneys 
IMPRESSIONS, strength of the case, etc. Understanding what criteria 
they used to determine whether something was work-related, and 
whether someone applied those criteria re a particular email, is not 
opinion. I'll do some research. And yes, is much, much too busy. 

2016-03-29 

00:08:06, Tue 

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To brief the D. He had a CT Homeland session with POTUS. 


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B) yeah, I wanted to push on that, since uh, they all already know each 
other George, but again, don't know my place. 

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C) You know I'll look at whatever whenever you want. 


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A) sounds right. How much you want to bet I’ll be pulling teeth cone 
Thursday?\nB) I know I can’t speak for Mike or Trisha, but as far as 
everyone else in the room, on this case, it’s your place. 


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So I would like to suggest the following to andy, but it depends on how 
important it really is to you: I really think should be present for all 
future calls with D counsel. Enough that I'd be willing to tell Andy, hey, 
this is a ’’look George, now I'm coming to you with an ask. We need a 
person in that room to ensure a trust - filled relationship moving 
forward. Be it’s starting to deteriorate." Or whatever. 

A) Then you'd better tell them first thing tomorrow morning. By 
email An 


I don't think we're there yet, re having on all calls. Maybe if they 
keep up these asinine proffers. But if they agree to get us interviews, 
then I think we can let them have their attorney discussions. Let's see 


2016-03-29 

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OUTBOX 

No more proffers. Period. God, I need to let this go. 1 can actually feel 
my blood pressure rising. 

2016-03-29 
00:32:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And btw, it's all well and good that you like but 1 think he's an 

arrogant *ssho!e. agrees, which makes it dispositive for me. 1 get 

he's the best you've got on that team, and maybe he's in fact good, but 
that doesn't change my fundamental read on him. 

2016-03-29 

00:33:48, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And 1 swear that it has nothing to do with our exchange at 

the end. 1 actually thought that was quite reasonable. 

2016-03-29 

INBOX 

A) me either. Let's see how this week goes. And I'll send something via 

00:35:52, Tue 


email tomorrow. \n^Bl^EjBKySklilS&StiyKMSiC3Bi 


iPd|IMPWWi^ \nD) he may be an asshole. I like some assholes. 
But he has experience and talks sense. If it wasn't your exchange at the 




end. what was it? 

2016-03-29 

00:36:55, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I can't put my finger on it. His demeanor the whole time. I don't think 
he is used to or likes to be disagreed with. 

2016-03-29 

00:37:12, Tue 

UNBOX 

And I GUARANTEE they will proffer more with Beth! Nothing was said 
today that they wouldnt, in fact, my take away was they were pretty 
clear they intended to! 

2016-03-29 

00:38:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No more proffers! We made clear that we needed an exchange with the 
witnesses. It doesn't matter what she proffers. 

2016-03-29 

00:39:30, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And what is this 1 like some as shoes bullshit. Name me one. Not 
someone funny snarky and can be a d*ck. 1 mean an arrogant asshole. 

2016-03-29 

00:39:56, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yes, 1 just wanted to make sure you understood it was not about that in 
any way. 

2016-03-29 
00:40:10, Tue 

INBOX 

They will want to do both. You HEARD them say they wanted to follow 
up the proffer with her. Do you think Andy/Jim have the same hard no 
proffer line/understanding? 

2016-03-29 

00:40:38, Tue 

INBOX 

apparently. 

2016-03-29 

00:41:03, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'll ask, but probably no. 1 don’t think they care if they continue, so long 
as we get in front of the witnesses. 

2016-03-29 

00:41:17, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No, you make excuses for people you like. Name me one. 

2016-03-29 

00:42:00, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 don't actually think you do like assholes. We're too similar, care too 
much about fairness and equity and kindness. 

2016-03-29 

00:42:19, Tue 

INBOX 

1 like 1 can see him being an asshole. And you and Doth think 

so. Ergo, he's an asshole, who 1 like. 

2016-03-29 

00:42:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

NAME ME ONE. 

2016-03-29 

00:43:02, Tue 

INBOX 

He has said a number of things to me in confidence which make me 
believe he believes strongly in all three. So then he's not an asshole, 
right? 

2016-03-29 

00:44:42, Tue 

INBOX 

In that case, you're right. 1 don't like assholes. \n\nThere. That was easy 
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OUTBOX 

Perhaps not, but he comes off as one. This is my first ever meeting with 
him, and he came off as one. has met with him many many more 

times, and she also regards him as one. And I'm sorry, I probably have 
no better skill than reading people on first blush. I will always trust my 
gut.___ .. 

2016-03-29 

00:45:17, Tue 

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You read me wrong! 



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You're making me angry. Either tell me I'm right and you were talking 
crap or point out another asshole you like. 


[No, not when it comes to someone's fundamental nature I didn't. 



And no. I guess I don't like assholes. And I don’t think he's one. 


I suppose we can agree to disagree re him. You obviously know him 
better, I trust mv gut. 


Can someone who 

believes in eq uity and fairness be an asshole?_ 

Yes, of course! Someone is weak, insecure, threatened, whatever, and 
act like an asshole as a defense mechanism. I'm just telling you, 
everything about him, from jump, read that way to me. Even his 
posture was agressive, like he couldn't believe he had to justify himself 

aeain. 


You did. And they will. 


Well 1 like him, as far as I can tell. I'm not going to argue any more 
whether or not he's an asshole. 


Deal. 


God. You KNOW I would....\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\n\nJust 
emailed to ask what the plan and timing was re Beth. 


Sorry was on phone with 

As expected, couldn't hear Andy or Jim and wasn't clear that we 

felt we mus t interv iew on sort and get on laptops. . __ 

And whatever discussion he had with this evening that wasn't 

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2016-03-29 IOUTBOX Well he should be able to call anyone else in that room and get that 


02:41:46, Tue 

message. 

2016-03-29 

02:42:06, Tue 

INBOX 


We both agree we need a united FBI-DOJ decision and position before 
he calls Beth. 

2016-03-29 

02:42:28, Tue 

inb’ox 


I'm telling you, DoJ is miraculous about hearing what they want to hear. 

2016-03-29 

02:42:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No, they're just better than we are. 

2016-03-29 

02:43:14, Tue 

INBOX 

Ok. I'll tell you the worst news. Per atty proffer, Combetta says he used 
BleachBit (a wiping program) when he deleted the psts from the 
laptops. 

2016-03-29 

02:43:37, Tue 

INBOX 

\U0001f621\n\nNo one on the team knows that yet so you have to 
wait to tell Andy. 

2016-03-29 • 

02:43:40, Tue 

OUTBOX 

The ones m and s used? 

2016-03-29 

02:44:17, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Still have to get them to confirm that. Doesn't change anything. You 
would never just take some attys word for it. 

2016-03-29 

02:44:17, Tue 

INBOX 

Doesn't mean they're not somewhere else, but if true, and done 
properly, makes this much harder. 

2016-03-29 

02:49:01, Tue 

INBOX 

Apr 18 I'm in nz...although 1 wonder if I should cancel with the case 
where it is.... 

2016-03-29 

02:49:50, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You should go. It’s important to meet these folks too. You will someday 
have your other job back. 

2016-03-29 

09:04:43, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Aargh. and now 1 can't stop thinking about 

your stupid case. The whole thing really makes me angry. \U0001f621 

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Trisha scheduled a meeting from noon 




until 1. \U0001f612 

2016-03-29 

11:19:24, Tue 

INBOX 


Grassley letter about reporting we had people sign NDAs. Still. Not. 

Done. 





2016-03-29 

11:46:00, Tue 

INBOX 

So. Changing topics so I stop wallowing in regret. Why is so low? 

Trisha? Or everything? 

2016-03-29 

11:54:30, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, mostly Trisha and working way way too hard and not feeling like 
Trisha is satisfied with anything is doing. 

2016-03-29 

11:55:22, Tue 

OUTBOX 

But you can't say anything to her! 

2016-03-29 

11:56:28, Tue 

INBOX 

1 won't. But 1 can be sweet, and appreciative 

2016-03-29 

11:56:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yes, that would be good. 

2016-03-29 
11:57:01, Tue 

INBOX 

) and what is Tricia doing? the only competent person she has... 

2016-03-29 

11:58:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I know. I'm sure she doesn't know she's doing it and would be appalled. 
I've been talking to every day about needing to say something to 

Trisha. Or to talk to Jim about getting advice about how to address her 
concerns. It's bad enough that she's been thinking about going back to 
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12:05:42, Tue 

INBOX 

And Jesus I'm late. Just now entering dc... 

2016-03-29 

12:08:30, Tue 

INBOX 

definitely needs to say something. That's no good having to work 
that way, feeling that way. 

2016-03-29 

12:57:50, Tue 

INBOX 

Yay. I'm ready when you are. Bill is stopping by my office at 9:45, 
something from upstairs this morning 

2016-03-29 

15:46:43, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey Trisha pushed the noon meeting. Call or stop by if you can before 
lunch re email drafting. 

2016-03-29 
23:30:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Also said he would send the draft email on to Andy tonight. Don't 

know why, but if you talk to him, want you to give me some credit in 


the drafting of that thing. Doesn't make a big difference I guess. 
\n\nAlso, Tricia email to apologize for changing yesterday to Monday. 
She said she had convinced herself that today was already Wednesday. 

I told her not to worry about it, that some weeks were like that, and 
that it was probably better to put the day of the week in there anyway. 

2016-03-29 OUTBOX 1 will. Was going to say pete md I drafted it so it should be good to 

23:37:02, Tue go. \n\nPoor Trisha. That's rough. 

2016-03-30 INBOX Seen talking to about you. I will show 

01:04:2 4, Wed __yo u to m orrow. _ 

2016-03-30 OUTBOX Also, andy responded, 

01:04:58 , Wed__ said he wo uld read email ton ight. _ _ 

2016-03-30 OUTBOX And more info re 

01:08:21, Wed _ • ________ 

2016-03-30 INBOX 

01:11:51, Wed We emailed. I want to show you tomorrow. Any chance 


in hell you let me wait? 


2016-03-30 

01:17:14, Wed 

INBOX 

Ok. Are you going to trust me to believe'you'd feel the same way, roles 
reversed? 

2016-03-30 

01:17:34, Wed 

INBOX 

And our cone of silence/circle of trust? 

2016-03-30 

01:22:03, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 don't know what the first question means, but yes, of course to the 
second question.\n\nPm not going to like this, am I? \U0001f615 

2016-03-30 

01:23:20, Wed ' 

INBOX 

You're going to be fine once you read it a second time and understand 
he knows nothing about you and lumps you into the HQ good idea fairy 
collective. 

2016-03-30 

01:32:28, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I'm not sure how I can be a "former prosecutor" and have never 
defended my position before a judge, but whatever, 1 don't give a shit. 
Really, the person who should be most offended is She's done 

nothing but as reasonable questions of them, him in particular, and 
instead been cross-examined for having the temerity to question "the 
most aggressive prosecutor agents have ever seen." But yup, you're 
right. Not arrogant or an asshole. 

2016-03-30 

01:36:18, Wed 

iNBOX 

Sigh. How is he to know you from Adam? Compared to the and 

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01:36:52, Wed 

INBOX 

You both react so strongly because there is (good, positive) similarity 
between you. 

2016-03-30 

01:37:10, Wed 

INBOX 

I'm going to once get you to understand your first impression was 
incorrect. 

2016-03-30 
01:38:45, Wed 

INBOX 

And stop with the don't give a shit, of course you do. But understand 
he's judging improperly based on ignorance. And be strong enough in 
your own skin and character to know he's wrong about you. Because of 
his insecurities and oreiudgments. 

2016-03-30 

01:38:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

How about he just explain the intricacies to the group of people at the 
table who inquired of him in the first place? \n\nOn this guy? Don't 
waste vour f-cking breath. 

2016-03-30 

01:40:22, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 know he's wrong about me. 1 don't need his validation to know I'm 
good at what 1 do. I’m not interested in engaging in a dick measuring 
contest, thanks. 

2016-03-30 

01:40:46, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yes, poor He knows all the answers. If only everyone would just 

do as he said. 

2016-03-30 
01:41:11, Wed 

INBOX 

Please - if you got summoned from Trenton to appear before the US 

Atty or the new Head of OCRS, you'd feel the same contempt. "The 
suits at main {/front office) have never done it, have no idea what it 
really takes." It's the same for him. 

2016-03-30 
01:43:37, Wed 

OUTBOX 

But you've said I've done it. Apparently your word doesn't carry much 
weight either. \n\nAnd yes, you have the luxury, like all prosecutors, of 
being myopic about everything about the case in front of you. We have 
an institution to protect. Go fuck yourself, 

2016-03-30 
01:48:32, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And frankly, it shows how much weight he gives your opinion too. She’s 
competent and has character and knows what she's talking about gets 
met with I can explain to her the intricacies of privileges she has never 
actually litieated. Quite the charmer. 

2016-03-30 
01:49:24, Wed 

INBOX 

Stop!\nA) you want his validation, because if he's half of what he says, 
he's a good prosecutor. 1 want his validation.\nA) 1) he doesn't know 
you\nB) put yourself in his shoes. He's an AUSA in Richmond. He's not 
the AAG, or DAAG, even though he's wildly more qualified. That gives 
rise to a complicated mix of contempt and envy and impatience and 
disrespect. \nC) he's had to fight harder than he should for justice 
(sound familiar?). That breeds distrust of authority. \nD) you're 
welcome re my defense. Even though he isn't willing to drop decades of 
experience for an acquaintance he's had for 6 months, 1 hope I'm and 
trust it counts for something. 

2016-03-30 

01:51:14, Wed 

INBOX 

And dammit maybe people's opinions aren't perfect but are shaped by 
their insecurities. Where does your expectation of perfect people come 
from? Good people can be limited by their flaws. \n\nAnd their flawed 


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1 have zero confidence at this time that he is a good prosecutor. Lots of 
inflated ego blowhards actually think they are, doesn't make it so. Pony 
up a comprehensive memo on work product, teach us all what we don't 
know, and I'd be happy to change my opinion.\n\nYou want everyone's 
validation, \n\nl do appreciate your defense of me. 1 should have 
thanked you earlier. Thank you.\n\n! do not believe that 1 am perfect, 
nor do 1 expect others to be - that's entirely unfair. 

2016-03-30 
02:02:48, Wed 

INBOX 

A) he convicted MacDonald. 1 don't know the rest of his trial record but 

1 know he has a great reputation \nB) 1 do. It's a fault of mine. I'm 
working on it. \nC) always. \U0001f636 

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02:03:14, Wed 

INBOX 

D) you misunderstand me. I'm saying HE’S imperfect 

2016-03-30 
02:03:24, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 haven't seen a whole lot of "doing" from him. But I've certainly heard 
a whole lot of talk. He's litigated it 7000 times, should be no problem to 
explain the law then. Hell, he can pull it out of the 7000 filings he's had 
to make on the toDic. 

2016-03-30 

02:03:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

D) I'm not looking for perfect from anyone. What I'm looking is 
humility. 

2016-03-30 
02:04:14, Wed 

INBOX 

D) consequently his beliefs and impulses and reactions (to you, in this 
specific instance) are fkawed. 

2016-03-30 

02:04:32, Wed 

OUTBOX 

A) And that's legit. And from everything I know, a tough case. So kudos 
to him. Doesn't change the rest of it. 

2016-03-30 

02:05:31, Wed 

INBOX 

A) bullshit of course it does. There is work behind that success. And 
unlike the ooseurs, actually did the lift. 

2016-03-30 
02:06:15, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 know they are. 1 do not take the comments of someone who has 
known me for a grand total of one hour to heart. I'm a lot more 
confident than that. You don't have to believe me, but I'm not looking 
for his validation. I'd simply take not being prejudiced and just a 
*smidee* less arrogance. 

2016-03-30 

02:06:15, Wed 

INBOX 

Who amongst us is humble? Andy? You? Me? Let's be brutally honest. 

2016-03-30 

02:06:33, Wed 

OUTBOX 

A) 1 believe that! 1 meant that that was impressive! 

> 

2016-03-30 

02:06:59, Wed 

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And I'm telling you it's wrong to read it as arrogance. 

2016-03-30 

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Oh stop with the philosophical discussion. No. But do we make a point 
of rubbing everyone's nose in it? 

2016-03-30 

02:07:26, Wed 

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Then me, and Andy are ail wrong. So be it. 

2016-03-30 

02:07:30, Wed 

INBOX 

I'd say - reduced to its core - it's inferiority and contempt and doubt. 

2016-03-30 
02:09:11, Wed 

INBOX 

Jesus. You're not all wrong. His assumption is you are Giuliano and 

and Giacaione. Lisa Monaco. Same-same. Why should he 

trust this is any different.\n\n\nWhy are you responding so damn 
hard?!?!? 

2016-03-30 
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Which 1 dislike even more. It's the very trait 1 most loathe. Instead of a 
modicum of humility, self-awareness, men in particular self-aggrandize 


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And same question you're not arrogant? Andy's not? I'm not? The 
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Am 1 confident jn my abilities? Yes. Do 1 have to cut people down or rub 
someone's nose in it to prove it to them, myself, or to feel good about 
myself? No, 1 do not. 

2016-03-30 
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1 don’t think he's self-aggrandizing. 1 think he's earned his chops and is 
engaging in behavior to minimize the devastating past impact of 
politically motivated assholes torpedoing justice for their own 
advancement. There's a difference. 

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He didn't cut you down! He didn’t say anything until prompted by me. 
And his (misinformed - wrong in this instance but usually right) opinion 
was informed by repetitive past experience. 

2016-03-30 
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So show me the fight for justice in this case. Not just the sweet nothings 
he whispers in your ear alone, but the truth to power that he's speaking 
every day. 

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After he's been told by George and to :hat their job is to get 

process? That they are to be seen but not heard, like children? Why on 
earth would he be cynical? 

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And the fact that you don't need to cut people down or run their nose 
in it doesn't diminish my point. Most people are flawed. See past their 
problems - those problems are theirs, not yours - to let you see the 
good and noble in them. 

2016-03-30 

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1 guess I'd say assume good intent. Whatever the pitfalls, assume good 
intent. 

2016-03-30 
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Hi. 830 with Jones cancelled 

2016-03-30 

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Yep. But 1 don't know her schedule. She was talking desk search policy 
change with Trisha at 3 then calling Fort now. 

2016-03-30 
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Need to talk later just got pulled into briefing tomorrow with ces, 
toscas, briefing chief of crim div on 

internal. 

2016-03-31 

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Hey, was thinking, don't you think DD should get a brief on that case for 
tomorrow before doj does? Or at least at about the same time? Maybe 
mention to bill? 

2016-03-31 

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Briefed Bill, he intended to tell Mike to brief Andy. Gave him enough 
copies. 

2016-03-31 

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1 get that, but maybe an actual brief since that's what doj is getting and 


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I don't think you'd want your DD not to know everything they do right? 


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Here's the thing re case brief -1 don't know how to stress importance 
without Jones deciding to invite himself. \n\nAnd truly, 1 think Bill will 
convey enough detail. And if Andy/Mike want more, they can ask. 
\n\nlnterestingly, we'd brief internals somewhat regularly to EAD. 
Haven't with Mike. Also, he's sat down for big briefs with 1 and 3 (not 
sure about 2). Not us. Maybe he figures he'll hear about them if he 
needs to. 1 may also suggest to Bill that he my want to get a section 
significant case briefing. 

2016-03-31 

15:43:12, Thu 

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Talked with Bill and Trisha and Will tell you on the way to lunch 

- call me when you're clear. 

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Thanks for stepping out to make the call/ heads up about lunch, I 
appreciate it. :)\n\nl am grumbly Bill is not going. Jim wasn't tracking on 
all the various sources of ambiguity in the reporting. \U0001f612 

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Just read your last lync - that's REALLY frustrating. \n\nBecause it's 
ok for Mike and Randy to have multiple people like^ff and 
|f, but because Andy is HIGHER, he needs LESS. \n\nMakes no 
sense whatsoever. 

2016-04-01 

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Not just less, but no disagreement. 

2016-04-01 

21:05:54, Fri 

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Calling George now. I'm sure this is in your interest 

2016-04-01 

21:07:21, Fri 

INBOX 

1 spoke with and got an update about where they are if you 

want it (nowhere, though they have spoken then written to prao) 

2016-04-01 

21:07:50, Fri 

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Talk to^f yet? 

2016-04-01 

21:08:16, Fri 

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No decision on where or how to tell^H, other than she will be 
called next week . No decision on what if anything to litigate. 

2016-04-01 

21:08:37, Fri 

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No (that he could produce to me) analysis of fact vs opinion 
product 

2016-04-01 

21:10:06, Fri 

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f|[ told the working level today she thought the Sat interview 
would only be State time.... 

2016-04-01 

21:16:03, Fri 

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Steinbach walked in. Calling George now 

2016-04-01 

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Sigh. Ok. Of course I'm waiting to hear all about it. 

2016-04-01 

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Oh christ. Doesn't seem like it is about the case. \U0001f612 

2016-04-01 

23:20:46, Fri 

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Just got done talking with Bill 

2016-04-01 

23:21:45, Fri 

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Went in when 1 got back, gave him the dump from you. \n\nl'm 
sorry about the disappearing. \U0001f636 

2016-04-01 

23:24:20, Fri 

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No problem. Hope you told him I'd be happy to share directly, just 
totally confused by the (non)rules going on in this case. 

2016-04-01 

23:26:30, Fri 

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Yes!\u263a 

2016-04-01 

23:58:52, Fri 

INBOX 

Yay. 1 told you Rich Quinn called, they're getting a ton of questions 
about State saying they stopped investigation at FBI request... 

2016-04-01 

23:59:51, Fri 

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Really. No, you didn't mention. 

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So look, you say we text on that phone when we talk about hillary 
because it can't be traced, you were just venting be you feel bad 
that you're gone so much but it can't be helped right now. 

Right. But did you say anything other than work? I didj^^m 

Btw, he got neither of the two asac jobs he was in for earlier, and 
saidm (who sits on the asac board) said he wasn't getting 
Milwaukee, coming up. Talked about him with Bill, too. He's of the 
same mind I am. \n\nGotta figure out what to do with 

That sucks aboutDo they have any suggestions? 


idea what to do about^^f. Probably suggest he try a different 
division (ct? lod?) to expand his experience. 

I told you the story from^^J about Andy getting his number? 

No, don't think I know the andy^^J story. Or if I do I don't 

remember. _ 

Pretty sure I told you - Mike heimbach lamenting how bad it was 
and what they'd have to do to get him selected for wfo. Anyway, I 
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I woke up thinking about and now I'm f-ing pissed and 

can't fall back asleep. \U0001f620\U0001f620\U0001f620 


And yeah. 


behavior was inappropriate. I need to talk to him. 


And then at 

6:30 I got all mad again about the fact that^H is now talking to 
DOJ about my question. Because it is THAT offensive that I would 

dare question him. Asshole. _ 

And then I get mad because I too can let rip all sorts of smart 
remarks, but because I'm a girl younger my position whatever I'm 

expected to remain above the fray. _ 

You get you're not the part that's objectionable to him, right? It's 

the while thing _ 

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No. You're a professional and someone who works in the office of 
the highest ranking agent in the FBI. You behave professionally and 

appropriately. _ 

You remain above the fray because that's the right thing to do, not 

because you're a woman or young or a n ything else . _ 

Everyone gets^H was out of line. 

I don't believe that for a second. 

And he was perfectly fine in the meeting. Which means the "out of 

line" has be e n happe ning since the n. _ _ 

And remember -1 didn't tell this to^H because I had forgotten - 
you whispered it to me, and only after George said "share your 

wisdom with the group" did you mention it. _ 

He wasn't perfectly fine in the meeting. I thought he was angry and 
you were leaving. \n\nWhich part of what I said don't you believe? 
And what do you mean by out if line has been happening since the 

meeting* _ 

That everyone gets he was out of line. 

It's the part that keeps coming up with I have not heard 
anything from anyone else in the meeting (other than 
talking ABOUT^H). Because, I suspect, that was on him to 
research/speak to and he didn't and it was questioned. 


2016-04-03 

13:00:58, Sun 

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Everyone on our side does. 1 can't speak to DoJ. 1 told you what 1 

toid^^^^g. 

2016-04-03 

13:01:04, Sun 

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And no, 1 don't have a problem with how he was in the meeting at 
all. 1 have a problem with the amount it has been a point of 
controversy since then, the amount that "that girl with the 
question" has clearly been discussed. 

2016-04-03 

13:02:00, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Our side equals you and Jon and maybeGive me a break 

Pete. If you guys don't have my back I've got real problems. 

2016-04-03 

13:02:43, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Whatever. We don't need to talk about it. 

2016-04-03 

13:04:13, Sun 

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He was angry and talked to me - after 1 brought it up - and with 
j|||||||. He may have spoken to^^^f after 1 brought it up with 


him. \n\nl think - and I may wrong - you are conflating the motives 


behind Randy Andy and 


with the ones at the meeting. The 


former is more along the lines of what you're saying. The meeting 
wasn't a function of yur age or gender. would have 
responded exactly the same way to a 45 year old male from the 
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A) we have your back. Strongly and forever. So you'll be good. 
\U0001f636\nB) Bill had no problem with what you said. \nC) there 
were no other FBI in the room at that point. \nD) Andy needs to 
f*cking say something to his crew. 

2016-04-03 

13:09:37, Sun 

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You don't know that, re But whatever, it really doesn't 

matter. 

2016-04-03 

13:10:20, Sun 

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It's true that 1 don't. 

2016-04-03 

13:11:04, Sun 

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And i do believe there's an inherent sexism in most people. So 1 
can't argue too strongly. Just my suspicion. 

2016-04-03 

13:11:21, Sun 

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A) You have my back. Maybe Bill who knows,^^ only if she's 

not threatened. 

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13:12:31, Sun 

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Truly, I'm going to talk to him. 1 think my main message is what 1 
told^^^^J you've got a bunch of very good, bright attorneys in 
that room, and you're going to get a ton more bees with honey 
rather than vinegar. And then reinforce you're a superstar. Is that 
the right path? 

2016-04-03 

13:13:22, Sun 

INBOX 

A) that's life. 1 think most people can only count on one hand 

the number of people who truly have their back, no matter what. 
\U0001f636+H466 

2016-04-03 

13:20:38, Sun 

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1 guess. 1 would probably be more direct - they don't know you 
from adam, why are they supposed to take your word for it? 
Especially when they're all used to the no brigade at DOJ. And if it 
is that straightforward and obvious an answer, it shouldn't take 
much work to demonstrate that to everyone. 

2016-04-03 

13:22:21, Sun 

INBOX 

Makes sense. 

2016-04-03 

13:23:07, Sun 

INBOX 

Do you have any desire to meet him - meeting about privilege or 
lunch or HH? (1 strongly suspect i know the answer) 

2016-04-03 

13:24:58, Sun 

OUTBOX 

You do know the answer. He can act all big and "sure I'll get a drink 
with anyone" but at the end of the day that meetup is going to go 
no better. 

2016-04-03 

13:26:53, Sun 

OUTBOX 

And truly, I'm not sure why you're going to say more to him in the 

place. what do you 

think you're going to accomplish? 

2016-04-03 

13:29:25, Sun 

INBOX 

it's also defending a friend, a 

colleague, who 1 have immense respect for. Whose back 1 
have.\n\nWhat 1 hope to accomplish is to understand his 
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And I'm just telling you it's pointless. Because he's not going to 
care what you have to say about me, or^H or baker or 
whomever, and he's not going to care or listen to the notion that 
he's been an ass. He's the most aggressive prosecutor any agent 
has ever worked with. \n\nRe the understanding his view on 
privilege, he's going to have to explain that - to lawyers, not agents 

- whether you say anything or not. _ 

Not sure I agree with your first point, but I understand it. And I 

agree with your se cond. I just w a nt to kn ow what it is. _ 

You on your call?^^^ ambushed me...30 minutes 
later...\U0001f612 

He literally followed me down the hallway arguing for|| 

...he does care, just a little TOO zealous 

sometimes. _ 

I know. He just doesn't know how to let go. But it is because he 

just CaresSo M uch. _ 

HH stopped by give me 3 


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straight into wrap.j’^^^ 


probably go from your meeting at doj 


Hey are you going to need your UC policy working folder? 

Yeah, I will. Will get it at some point. 

Ok. I'm leaving for wf around 9 - want me to leave it someplace? If 
you're en route to^[^J| before then I could maybe meet you up 

there+H730 _ 

And sorry about Andy...I'm sure he eventually well, but you 
shouldn't have had to wait this long. \U0001f615 
Yeah well I'm such a valued player... 

And truly have 30 things to tell you (some or all of which can wait 
till tomorrow), including an interview Bill is stressing about and 

wants me to do in NY. \n\nYou are! _ 

This is a weak spot for Andy 

Couple of things. Same thing^f called about (timing of getting 
Combetta and judges at edva) plus disagreement withal on 
interview topic for Mills (^^^J is right) 

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that call, my overall feeling was "oh good, he cares!" I'm even okay 
with him caring out of a selfish desire because he really wants me 
to keep working for him. And so now I just feel like a suckered 
maybe? Guess he didn't care enough. 

I don't know. That's the best I can come up with. 

I'd feel that way. No doubt about it. \n\nBut see what I just 
imsged. I don't know if "friendship" changes when it's a superior - 
subordinate relationship, particularly when it's an advisor - high 
ranking dynamic (in other words, I think it's different - some - from 
my relationship with^^^^^^^J) 

And interesting how elusive it is (for me, too!) to put ones finger 
on. \n\nl guess for me it's the thought (hope) that he's a stand up 
guy. And this is not stand up behavior. And when it's about YOU 
that's extra hard.\n\nLet me ask this (though maybe it doesn't 
translate). What would Giacalone do? 

I do think it's because he's my friend too. And honestly, I know he's 
my vast superior, but he's never treated me like that. Nor I him. So 

mostly I do just consider him my friend. _ 

Re giacalone, I really don't know. I think he would have taken it 
head on and addressed it, but he's such a different person, he 
would have done it in an awkward shucks-y way. Andy's not like 
that, just has to be earnest and direct, which is harder. John would 
say, "hey c'mon go easy on her. She's helping me out, means no 
harm, etc." I think? But what do I know. 

2016-04-08 OUTBOX Remind me to tell you what came up st the end of convo with 

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Were you able to talk to Andy about Randy? 

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Sort of. Will explain. 

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Sort of?!?!?! What? 


Good!!!! 

That's gotta make you happy. 


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Oh. Talking to Randy. Got it. 

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about Randy. 

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Of course 1 can't wait to hear... 

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Just talked with^^^f. Sounds like there was guidance received... 

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Good! 

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What was the guidance? 

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Talk briefly? 

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Sure, but everyone close by 

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Andy just called. Will try to call if 1 can. He spoke to randy. Randy 
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You think 1 should pull the whole doj contingent, or just or 

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So. Shouldlpull^^^H aside and tell just him first? 

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That's what I'm thinking, too.^f will be a calming influence. 
That's a real f-u to laufman though. 

And we have a long relationship. 

Yep. Which he deserves, frankly. Funny, despite my various 
feelings, I'm not at all worried about that. 

And jesus, did you just see the Times update? 

Did he come for the prep? 

Yes I did and yes he did. But he's literally doing nothing other than 

sitting in on the big interviews. _ 

Wow. This is quite interesting. Jaffar is THE privacy guy at the 
ACLU.\n\nWhy Apple\u2019s Stand Against the F.B.I. Hurts Its 

Own Customers http://nyti.ms/lWiZafn _ 

I know. He's such a douche wad. 

And sigh. His underlying emotional terrain certainly complicates it. 
And kudos to you for being sensitive to it \n\nYou're a good 
woman, Charlie Brown.;) 

I know who^J is.;) 

Stupid autocorrect undermined my gentle snark.^^J... 

I have had correspondence from him to me explaining how I was 
undermining his clients God and Constitutionally given rights. 

You should really stop doing that. 

Not following - he needs a softer touch? 

I know. I am The Man. \n\nBernie loving^J would hate me 

Do you think I'm misplaying not having David there with^^^| 
and ^|? 

If you doH then just do the whole team. 3 out of the 4 is 
ridiculous. So yeah, then I would just do the whole team. 

No, would just be^^^f and \n\nOr add David and m 

Just add them both, do it all at once. Then there's no grounds for 
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They are p*ssed. Just oh so slightly 

2016-04-09 

12:53:28, Sat 

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Oh well. 

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Did you have to invoke the D/Dd? 

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-yep 

2016-04-09 

16:37:32, Sat 

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Done, but 1 need to call Bill with the storm that's coming 

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19:12:07, Sat 

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Found a way thru convo with to subsequently suggest to Bill 

he needed to follow up with JB. 

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And Bill just said he and JB missed each other, and the JB has an 
event tonight. Guess they'll talk tomorrow... 

2016-04-10 

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1 find I'm 

01:20:08, Sun 


increasingly profoundly bothered by JBs call and the lack of ANY 
heads up. Deeply. It was wrong given what 1 had already been 
asked to do. Gonna sleep on it and see where 1 am in the morning. 


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Because you know where I was on Thursday or Friday night - when 
I was complaining about everyone expecting me to deliver the hard 
message while they vacillated in discussing with their counterparts. 
About how my sense of justness and character was at odds with 
waiting until Sat to say something. \n\nAnd rightfully, you point 
out stop being so prima donna-ish and just do it. \n\nAnd i do. 
\n\nAnd then I find out an hour later that in addition to what I was 
asked to do, JB went to counsel and had the discussion he did. And 
I'm the one facing the music. From some who I have known for a 
long time. Nobody else pays the price. Nobody else will have the 
same straight hard discussion. Yet I'm the only one who violated 
his sense of integrity to swallow hard and deliver the message. 


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I'm not sure if I want to be part of this 

You are a part of this and that's not going to change. But I think 
you have every right to be angry and frustrated about being left 
out of the loop on your investigation, especially when you're going 
to be left holding the bag. And I think you're entitled to say 
something to Baker about that, though on this one I would 

probably discu ss w ith Bill first. _ 

I'm sorry^^f Big big case, big big problems. But God knows 

you're still the right guy to do it.F!1133 _ 

Gmailed you two drafts of what I'm thinking of sending Bill, would 
appreciate your thoughts. Second (more recent) is updated so you 

can skip the first. _ 

Andy just called to make sure I had heard everything. Call when 

you're free _ _ 

Bill wants to talk to me at 1215... 

Just talked with Bill, who spoke with 
everyone this morning. Will fill you in tonight or tomorrow. 
\n\nAlso, he was under the impression Andy wanted the meeting 
and a prebrief with FBI only just before. I think may have 
screwed up that scheduling. Can you check? Obviously want to 
confirm with him before going toB^jff 
We talked for 45 minutes... 

Wow. Can you talk now? 

Sent email to andy re pre-brief. Will let you know what he says. 

Will wait to reach out to^^l re call-in line until I hear from him. 


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2016-04-13 
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Oof. Laufman just left me a minute long message. Don't think I'm 
going to listen tonight. \n\nAnd it's weird. CES always shows as 
"restricted" when the call is coming in but then shows true name 
afterwards on the call list. Needless to say, I screen all restricted 

calls... ___ 

Talked with^H for a while. She couldn't remember who said the 
D was going to talk to the AG on Sun night or Mon about this. 


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My point in forwarding the email was to talk about how we get to 
a productive pla ce 

We'll get there, but for this meeting I'd solely just be taking^m 
lead. 

Well sure, but would be nice to know what that lead is in advance 
rather than, I don't know, f*ck me in the *ss wirhout saying 
anything, kinda like^ calling counsel the night before. \n\nToo 
much negative done to expect benefit of the doubt. 

Maybe we can find some time to talk today 
about the MYE thing? Really need to put it to rest. Certainly before 

the meeting tomorrow, if I can. _ 

I will. I promise. 

Btw, forgot to mentiom, Bill had me forward invite tomorrow to 
m \U0001f612 
Are you serious? 

Yep. Came up in the meeting. 

Spoke to^^^J need to talk to you at some point. Not urgent, so 

can certainly wait 

so free to talk. 

Hi. I can talk now. 

Thank you. \U0001f636 \n\nWas obviously constrained on my 
comments. What I identified IS what bothers me the most. And the 

rest is nonsense. _ 

And I think that frustration is fair. But it doesn't change the 
fundamental okay-ness of the prior two decisions (the summation 
and the call to her). It just means it would be best to handle it 
differently in the future. And Jim WILL understand that. Just talk to 
him, one on one. You don't need to get Bill's permission, clear 
through him, just go talk to him. It will all be fine. 

I will. He told Bill on Monday he'd be happy to talk to me any time. 


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And I'm kinda sad about going to NZ...but it's the right decision. 

\U0001f612 

Oh. Boo. ..I'll talk to her. If Jon and I are here, she doesn't need to. 
Unless there is privilege research going on. She said she had 
already done some. 


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JM got funny about telling Carl first...that his standard 
presentation? 


2016-04-14 
20:02:03, Thu 


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No clue. That's just how he gets when he really wants something 
to go a certain way but he doesn't like confrontation. 


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23:30:32, Thu 


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Still here. \U0001f612\n\nForgot to tell you that randy asked if we 
could talk and get a cup of coffee next week. Which is good, I 
suppose. 


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And yeah, that's good about randy. Hopefully a very different 
ch aracter of c onvo than whatever Castor wanted to say. 

Good qt with andy. Got to talk about a lot of 
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I'm glad - look forward to hearing about it i figured you left late 
after] got an emai[from him at 7:45... 


Oh did he respond to yours? He didn't say anything. 


Hi. Well you're good for a late start, at least, Andy's 



And sorry about 

delay, I was talking to Bill. Interesting Apple story if you have time 
to talk this weekend. Nothing urgent, it can certainly wait until 
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And how much should I reach out to^^^f? He's still genuinely 
hurt. I may have been a bit callous this afternoon. Or at least, 
tough lo ve. _ 

You should not reach out to^^^f. Jesus, he's an adult. He 

should act like one. _ 

Sigh. Agreed. My soft heart feels badly. 

And still in 


with a ndy. 

Hi going to try and catch Bill 

Still in with andy 

Hey are you ok if I pass to team (including doj) that as of last eve, 

JB has not talked with|^B?\n\nAlso, thinking about setting up 
meeting with Brooks and you,^H, Moffa. Want him to hear legal 
reasons why we need extraordinary measures, see interest of 
office of DD, and give him a little prep time for his folks to get him 

options (if any) _ 

Yes. Just so you know, he waited to call her until Monday (on 
purpose, wanted to resist the she calls and we jump), as of 
yesterday afternoon she hadn't responded. \n\nThat's fine too. 


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11:13:29, Wed 


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Ok re JB. What's the best way for the team to intetact/coordinate 
with him? I was thinking^^^l really just want to get control over 
the investigation.\n\nAlso, remind me brief to Bill on|H| 


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Maybe you should reach out to him? Just swing by his ofc before 8 

and ask for an update? _ 

Won't be in until 8...stupid non-hov commute ,.\U0001f615+H1721 

flB won't ask him direct, she'll feel the need to go thru trisha. 

You can tell them I told you, it's fine. 

Randy sent me an invite for 1:30-2. 


ood, re Randy, right?+H1728 


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In addition to^^|, remind me convo about OIA at 1:00 yesterday 

Hey check your vm before you talk to your MYE team. Jim spoke to 
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2016-04-20 

13:21:46, Wed 

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Yep heard same with more detail from Bill via JB and dd, need to 
talk to you 

2016-04-20 

13:24:17, Wed 

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Feel free to call 

2016-04-20 

13:58:23, Wed 

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Hey just left vm. I'm done/free.... 

2016-04-20 

13:58:53, Wed 

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Vm at desk or cell? 

2016-04-20 

14:02:33, Wed 

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Cell 

2016-04-20 

14:10:56, Wed 

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You have a rough eta? 

2016-04-20 

14:11:19, Wed 

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It hasn't come up yet. Nor did it ring. 

2016-04-20 

14:11:32, Wed 

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Hopefully 15. Service was REALLY slow. 

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14:11:50, Wed 

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Want me to call again? It can also wait 

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14:14:44, Wed 

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Yes, let's tall now 

2016-04-20 

19:54:31, Wed 

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Hi there. I'm done. 

2016-04-20 

19:57:34, Wed 

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Waiting outside Andy's office now, and then I'm leaving. Randy is in 
his office now. 

2016-04-20 

20:35:40, Wed 

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Also, Bill said he would email JB and cc you and JM the white paper 
you reviewed earlier. 

2016-04-20 

21:12:40, Wed 

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Good talk with Jb, will tell you all about that tomorrow. 

2016-04-25 

23:54:32, Mon 

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Andy texted again:\n\nl heard this morning at the DOJ brief. GT 
and 1 discussed the strategy. 1 think they have it lined out. 

2016-04-26 

12:53:53, Tue 

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‘1 have a 15 minute meeting with 

Trisha at 9:15 now. \U0001f612 

2016-04-26 

21:21:18, Tue 

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And forgot to tell you that 1 spoke to Andy. Went well. Hope it is 
truly behind us. 

2016-04-26 

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That was it! You'll have to tell me tomorrow. 

2016-04-26 

21:23:06, Tue 

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Im glad. 1 think it is (behind you). Thats the good part in that he 
couldn't have been more crystal clear. 

2016-04-26 

21:59:42, Tue 

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Talked with^^J She said she thought the DC Bar limitations made 
sense, but 1 asked her to verify and that I'd appreciate 
understanding/her take on the matter, before brief to D on Thurs. 
Mike is supposed to send her a case. 

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22:01:18, Tue 

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1 don't understand why a taint team isn't sufficient... 


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I wish Steve was alive. He would absolutely know this answer. 

\U0001f61e\n\nHow much do bar regs vary? 

Some, but this big of a difference would be really anomalous. 

Talking with^^^f.^^^^ specifically asked him NOT to talk to 

me until AFTER he talked to Andy 

Uh okay. And he waited three days because?... 

No. Just now. Tonght. About this afternoons covo 

Conversation. 

The 2:00 you mean? 

Tell you what,^J can come lead this fucking case with^^^f. I'l 

go work cases and get my car back _ 

I'll mention to andy. Why did George insist on that? 

Read the email I just sent, note bcc 

Because is playing the you're not getting accurate 

information" game and is allowing it to happen. 


Fuck thid 
That's not okay. 

This. Thanks Samsung 
Hell no it's not. 

We will fix this. 

Bullshit. We will puss out. If I got a quarter of the support^ 
blindly gives his guys, we might, but we won't. \n\nAnd I don't 
want to burn our relationship with this snd|j^| 

Jesus I'm maf 


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You should be. 100% Enraged. 

I called you. 

Just talked to Bill and qualified the fact vs my assumption in the 
email. Also told him about "did you talk to Andy" 

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\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U000 

lf621\ U00 01f621\U0001f621\ U0001f621_ 

Want to tell at^^^|. Scars motherf*cker? You want to see 
scars? 

I know bHli l I know. It isn't right. But it's not worth burning your 


relationship with the I 


over. Let's take his temperature first. 


E ven better, let him do your dirty w ork. 


God I'm really angry with 


If he had any dignity at all, he'd 


give you, us, some credit for the persistence in this area. They just 
suck so much. I hope^Hj has the self-awareness and character to 

do so. _ 

Talked to him just now, too. More info about George go if direct 
with Andy - concern about info JB didn't have about the case in the 
context of his discussion with^J, and the implication of the 
faulty telephone process going on with info flow in the fbi 
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Can you talk now? 

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I'll of course give 


you a complete dump about what^^Bsaid/whenever you 


want.H2010 

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Thanks for observations about JB. Cost of doing business if D and 
DD are going to use him. 

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And also, he's not "the team." This is all a red herring. 

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Pisses me off a little that Andy hasn't called back. 1 guess it's 
possible he's still at dinner... 

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Who's not the team - JB? Fine, but D and dd decided to use him. 


And ifaccurate, was the cause of wondering what info is or 
isnt passed up. After all, of JB doesn't know that, what doesn't 

Andy know? _ 

Yeah I get it, but George KNOWS jb. This is all bs. Whatever, I'm 
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I am too. This also plays into "Georges special relationship" with 

Andy_ _ 

Think we should touch topic of during D brief? 

Hmm. Let me get to you aboutthatone^^^Btalked to me this am 
about jb and ta's position re haven't had a 

cha nce to dig in yet. _ _ 

And please re Andy don't go too far. He (and J) knows we are 
close, right? And while what you're saying is exactly right, would 

you say it for any schmuck? _ 

Probably not, but you're not any schmuck. 

\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 (damn right \U0001f609)\n\nl 
think we mention that part (specifically that we're cleared to go 
back to task). I was talking about the specific allegation. We 
haven't discussed with him in a briefing we've given. I almost want 
to do it so 1) he knows we're aware 2) demonstrate that to Trisha 
and whoever else is deep in the "secret secret, ive got a secret" 
mindset and 3) get a sense of what he's thinking. 

I just think andy is probably keeping him appraised of this, but we 
can talk about it. 

Agree. It is substantive in that it is relevant to the case, just not 
sure if there is a decision point or information he would want in 

the context if his thinking about the issue. _ 

Yeah, can maybe have bill ask andy, but otherwise don't think it's 

probably n ec essary. _ _ 

Ha. Want to talk to you about^^f and her comment, too... 

stupid comment, and whether you want me to say 
anything to her 
What would you say? 

So, it looks like there is a networking/break starting at 2, then kerry 
sleeper from 2:15 to 2:45, then homicide trends at 2:45-3:15, then 
another networking/break. I would schedule for 2:00. 

Then 3:30 is Oregon standoff/managing relationships. 

Just reinforce that you're good people, experienced, credible. Not 
"little" anything. Not sure it would make a difference but willing to. 

I'd be more interested in finding out why she said it. "What was up 
with little counsel girl? Do you not like her?"_ 


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1 don't need her to like me. 1 need to to treat me with respect 
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Ok. Will aim for then with JM. Thats the same time we have 
blocked for mye wrap with Bill 

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So then 1 would go direct with her and not thru jm. 

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02:12:34, Wed 

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Want me to grab you at 5? Also, see email, 1 think 1 just gave|liS| 
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1 know. 1 saw email. Hence my :(for^H. She invited me to it. 
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Have confirmation thru Andy he wants a meeting? All 1 have is 
George via^^^j 

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Nope, I'd rely on that. 

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He wants to go thru George, so be it 

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I'll cancel the brief. 

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Don't cancel the brief, obviously. 

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Forgot to mention, 1 asked Trisha about embeddingwith a 
squad at WFO for a few days, and she thought it was a great idea. 
Need to clear it through chain first \U0001f612, but please give 

a little thought to where it might make sense tostick^Bfora^ 

couple of days. Thanks for the excellent idea. Mf ?. - Mil| 

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?°t cone ith Eil j grabbing 

Im ill hi 1 willi^B mil Inn 

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Just got done withBmf 

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Who is worthless 

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Re^^J embedding, what area (s) is^J going to be working? 

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12:54:58, Wed 

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Trisha doesn't know yet. But 1 suggested maybe a Cl squad, and she 
was fine with that. Just don't make any moves yet though please. 

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15:04:19, Wed 

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R'tV.Going to try and find out if DD in fact wants a 
meeting today with Toscas et al, as well as Bill's convo with him. 

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Hey just talked to Bill. He has not talked to Andy yet about Toscas 
but says he still intends to. He said Andy was in a really bad mood 
this morning about a news article, plus in a rush. 


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He was. Kortan majorly screwed up. 


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Nothing related to us (mye or cd)? 


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Hey while I'm thinking about it please send me the name of the 
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hank you. I'm sure the "experts" in nsd will be happy I 
call him. \n\nBtw, how utterly f*cked up is it that George was by 
far and away the most aggressive DoJ person in the room today? 


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Dude, your wrap is loooong. Waiting on Bill before reaching out to 
CES, also curious as to your thoughts about revised statement - Bill 
really wants to write something.\n\nYou have a while to go yet? 

Sorry one work Q I forgot - D mentioned^® Do you think that was 
something someone inside related to him or his outside checking 

up? _ 

He no doubt calledBHH 


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Makes sense. Wasn't sure if it was something he heard from JB or 
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My guess is complaints from jb and Andy about the low levels of 
engagement at doj led to discussions of who is on the team... 


I regret not saying (though I have in the past) is eah,l 
ok, but edva is clearly second fiddle to nsd. 


might be 


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This sucks already. ..team walking to Woodward Table for farewell 

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Toscas showed up. Just like Thurs meeting, he was by far the most 
aggressive DoJ in the room. Literally siding with us and fighting 
back againstet al's concerns. \U0001f621\n\nl literally 
said, twice, stop framing your facts to them simply in terms of PC 
for an affidavit. Frame your argument in terms of what is most 
compelling in the big picture to achieve what we want, then 
narrow down to show how it links specifically to our case/pc/etc. 
\n\nl think George got it, but jeez. It's not so hard, is it? 

It's not. They're just not very good. Can you call George, ask him to 

attend? _ 

\U0001f60a D. \n\nHe's not. Already thought to myself, Jesus 
George, why can't you have this conversation. He got immediately 
what I was saying (granted, he may already have had the benefit of 
Andy telling him). It's a smart play. It's not complicated. 

Will have to tell vou mv convo with earlier and what MU 


Will have to tell you my convo with earlier and what^g 

said. After I left, he apparently said he was "tired of taking sh*t 

from the Bureau." \U0001f612 _ 

Gotta go have career counseling with Bill...should be done before 
you get there, though. 

Taking sht from the Bureau?! Poor^^^J It's so hard to be him. 

Especially gratifying that Toscas then tells him exactly the same 
thing 

How'd the talk go with Bill? What'd he say? 


In any event, he said he thought the world of me and couldn't 
imagine me being anywhere other than the top quadrant. 

Asked what I wanted to do and any geographic limitations, m 

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Fie didnt, directly. Certainly didn't say no way, but nor did he say, "I 
think you'll be able to do that." Two reasons, at least. Much easier 
for him to argue to advance me if he can say "Pete's willing to go 
to the east coast" or even mid-atlantic than it is to say "Pete's 

limited to HQ and WFO." _ 

Second reason is he went to NY and left his family here. 

Always better to 
at least say "look. I'm open to the needs of the Bureau, just be 
aware of these factors" rather than "I must stay here" 

Especially if you do a 
gig as dad first. Or be like andy and be willing to not ever be 
promoted further because of your geographic limitations. 

I did tell him I'd be interested in being a DAD, he said good, some 
people aren't interested in that. I did caveat that later to CD by 
saying if Jones or Gordon left. I suppose I'd think hard about CYD or 
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We talked about the impact of succession on 7th floor, egHH 
asking to go out as an SAC. Fle's also not thrilled with the idea of 
though hopefully^^^^^^^^^J would help 
temper that. A whole lotta CTD guys being put everywhere, that's 

for sure .__ _ 

Fley also, mye brief to Bowdich on 5/10. on the invite (just 

the four of u s).___ 

And what is^^^f deal with Told^^J "whatever you do, 

DON'T pick him. Fie will stay for 6 months and move on." So now 

I've got to fight through that _ 

Fle's resentful of^^f from the^^^^J fights. Feels sold out by 
him. 

Ah. Got it. Going to have to fight back what he told Dummies 


That's just my guess. 


And sounds right re I 


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Just got off the phone with|^^J (who seems suddenly fine and 
not upset \U0001f612). Can give you update on phone or on 
Monday. Not a lot of substantive movement. 

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And now we've switched from the Patriot Act to a wire carrying 
current.X,"* 

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Btw, they've all decided in person mtgs are much better for us than 
| and^^Bseparate and dialing in. \U0001f612 

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1 suppose getting the background won't kill us, though I'm 

certain it will be shared with the SpecAss community up there. I've 
never heard of him - what's his background? 

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Boy, they are just strategic geniuses arent they? 

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That was my response. \n\nBut not just that, SOO very smart that 
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Yeah, that's probably part of, him going to your meeting. No clue 
his story. But was thinking it might be better for more lumpies like 
that to hear there's nothing there - don't know if he's smart 
enough to understand, but it probably doesn't hurt anything and is 
not worth trying to kick him out. 

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check out Obama's remarks to the W+H2632ash Press Association 
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1 have my standing Midyear at 9:10, but should be 

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fast. 9:30 work? 




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|fj1-',--®| Have been dealing with J 

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f*ck up 

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And holy shit Cruz just dropped out of the race. It's going to be a 
Clinton Trump race. Unbelievable. 

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What?!?!?? 

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You heard that right my friend. 

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1 saw trump won, figured it would be a bit 

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Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE... 

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It sure does. We need to talk about follow up call tomorrow. We 
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Schedule is open 9:45 until around 2:30. Let me know when 1 can 
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My schedule is utter sh*t tomorrow. 1 will let you know. :( 

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still on track forM at 7? And are you going to hit the AM briefs? 

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Meeting with J at 7, not going to morning briefs. 

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Going back to thatB memo, just remembered Jones wants 
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Would what? 

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Take it out 

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Or talk toH about it. Just say since we hate the third party 
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K. 1 should probably tell no. ; 

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I'll call her then. Will say 1 don't like it and want to take it out 

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1 would at least start with it out 

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Talked to^^J took it out, taking it to Jones 

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Why? What's he going to do about it? 

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Why not just have him send an email to^^ and Andy explaining 
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K. Anyway, 1 asked if it could have been DD...she wasn't sure. 

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11:56:03, Thu from your schedule, sounds like the morning, while hard, is much 

better than the afternoon, which will be impossible 

And damn. You see weekly odate with D? 

Hey good news, re that^^^J stuff, you should talk toj. For 

sure, J has been informed of the situation in the past. _ 

Nice. At lunch with^|... 


\U0001f636+H2865 _ 

Racing to my desk, grab lock bag, then off to wh. 

Ooh. Fancy fancy.;) 

May have to wait until wrap to hear all your stories. \U0001f636 

How was the WH? 

It was good. Regulatory options for^J 

Talked with^, good info from him, thank you. Also advancing 
|m travel, will try in the next month or so. Need to coordinate 
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Sit room or oeob? 

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Oeob. Just a lawyer group meeting. 

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You going straight to DoJ? 

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Yup. In ODAG'S car now. 

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Wow!! Double fancy fancy.;) 

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You realize you could have been in the CD4 SC's car...not as 
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It is a lovely car. 

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No. In with andy 


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Also, andy going to want to meet with just you and Bill tomorrow. 

Will explain later. _ _ 

Ok. Bill now going to wrap at request of He has the info - 

CNN breaking fbi has interviewed aides quietly at fbi building, 

specifically Huma _ 

Ok re mtg 

Just saw it on cnn. 

Also be by the phone btwn 530 and 6. Andy wants to meet with 

you and bill. _ 

That's what I was wanting to call and tell you 

Ok. Bill will be there at wrap 

All the same stuff we have been talking about. Ec, letter to icig, etc 
Ok - thinking through what we need to do? 

Bill just stopped by and told me same. \n\nYou're good at your job. 

\u263a _ 

Chat before you go? 

I haven't been to my desk in like 9 hours. Let me just quickly check 
email and try to get out of here. 

Talking to Bill in the hall 

Np. Needed a phone number, just found it. 

K. Just finished. 

Jim locked himself out. I've been waiting with him. Headed to my 
office now. 

K. Hit me on lync 


called so need to cal 


him back. 
Oh. Called 


Oh. Called Huma's atty called just afterwards, he's talking 

to her and calling back. _ 

Fun 

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Not gonna be charged isn't anyone at the fbi, that's for sure 


I might disagree slightly 


Okay. Not anyone informed at the fbi. 



Ha re your first 1026 


Also, Andy's conference room is too big. Way too big.^ • 
J|\n\nLeave the monitor wall in place. Too expensive to change. 
Move where he was sitting 15-20 closer to the screens. Liberate 
the remaining space. \n\nlt's too big. \n\nAnd it may be $$, but it's 
ridiculously too big.£^^^jj^| 

No way to change the room. The table alone was^H. (You can't 
repeat that!) No, instead it just means we now have to get a small 
conference table for his actual office, so that he can actually have a 

meet ing that is intimate. _ 

Does^H go to all the wraps, or was he sitting in for Eric? 

Sitting in for Eric now. 


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Yes. Leaves next week. 

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Ridiculous re the room. A wildly costly mistake. 

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NO one with sense questioned it? 

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1 have no idea. Claim was something big enough for the weekly sac 
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Ooh, and my office is cleared out. Need to ask my IT friends to put 
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*Might* go in on Saturday. Will have to see. 

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I've gotta go in this weekend, if only for a couple of hours 

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War gaming with Moffa. Much to run past you. 

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Have a 10, but after that I'm free. Maybe we can grab a cup then 
powwow in your ofc. 

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How long is your 10? have a 10 as well. Probably 45 min, def over 
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Yeah, probably 45 for me too. 

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Possibly. Just depends on what time 1 get in. 

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Andy on the phone with Bill right now permanently kicking Jones 
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And buttressing the decision, remind me side comments from him. 

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Did.you show the^^^^^^^J email? 

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And you're about to be sent the D's press statement. Just to you 
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1 did. He chuckled. And said you're the only person I'm the Bureau 
who could successfully use jaunty. 

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Just had a better idea. I'll ask andy this weekend, and if it's okay 
with him. I'll sent up the question for you. Will check this whole 
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I'll ask you, in front of the D, "Pete, I apologize for putting you on 
the spot, but I know you shared with andy some of the comments 
you've been hearing from folks, I think it would be valuable for the 

D to know them." _ 

Can't right now but will shortly. 

Np. Have some time on all this. 

And hey^^^ call the field office. HQ isn't going to be able to 
draft a damn search warrant, the field is. Call an ausa on duty for 

chrissake. _ 

No kidding...but he never knew shit about the Bu anyway 

Talked to Bill just now 

Think I'm going to call Laufman this morning. Want details 
specifically on WHO is making these calls. Then call^f and talk 

about what they did in PC investigation land. _ 

Good plan. 

Don't let that pompous boob push you around either. 

I won't - he hasn't really tried to do that. He's largely absent. 

Work call? 

(Me with you, now? ( 

Just got done talking to Bill 

check out the wp articles I emailed. 

Read a Clinton one. 


When is Andy out next? 


Turn on nbc 


What was it? 


Guccifer. Sleazy Romanian. 
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Funny to watch and think of 

No wonder he's a brusque as he is...and those 

Roma nians aren't e ven the gypsies... _ 

Seriously, I kind of hate them. (I'm sure^^J fine). But they have 
the crookedness of the Russians with the entitledness of the 
Italians. Yuck. 


Ha. Never really dealt with them 


Hey, work related, with Bill out, does Andy want Jones bringing 
MYE daily bullets? Or email from us to I don't see 

how we don't include him. And I think I def bootleg you in case he 

Fs it up _ 

I'm sure he doesn't care, plus I can't imagine that Jones will sit in 


I guess. Another thing to add to the to do list. 


Don't have anything until my 


910 mye staff meeting. 


Walking to desk 

I'm at my desk, hiding behind the yellow "away" light 

Jon got an eras machine last week. Wondering if I want to do the 

same. \U0001f615 _ 

When are you free tomorrow Ito talk with Jon about speech? 1? 

Not sure. Will let you know, 

And talkedto^^^^Barmer evening. \n\nConcluded by saying I 
cannot overstate to you the sense of urgency about wanting to 
logically and effectively conclude this investigation. 

Meet with Jon at 2 tomorrow? 

We have Bowdich at 2:30. Can you do earlier? Or any time after 
3:45. And/or come to Bowdich with us 
Don't want to do that. Let me look. 

I could do 1:30-2:30. Do you guys need to prep for that at all? 

Wait but you both have your 1:00. 


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Could also do 330 to 430 

Prep? Please. :D\n\nl:30 works. We're skipping 1 and sending our 

ASCs _ 

Told you if the D is stressed he's got the goddamn Allstars behind 

him. _ 

330 I'll tell you my impressions of the ADD... 

;)+H3342 _ 

Ha. We'll see. 1:30 it is then. 

Tell jon? 

I did, see invite. 

And I never got an invite for today. 

Hi. Really? Let me go check. 

Get it just now? 

And yes, I did. 

Going to go do my 4B career board 

Are you still going to LV next week? You know^^^f and 

Laufman are going, right? _ 

No and yes. \U0001f621 

Because they're dedicated to this case. \U0001f612 How did that 
comejjo? 

Overheard Plan to tell Dd as grist for his call to Carlin to get 

them to take it seriously. 

I neither told nor invited Jones 

I know. #1: you need to find out how he knew. #2: I talked to Andy 
about it. He's out. Permanently. He will discuss with Bill. 

Convo with Jon went badly in that I'm not sure he 
understood me a+H3379nd three people walked up etc et. \n\n\n 
Writing bullets for Jones to give to EAD for Andy. Unless you think 

there's a better routing for it. _ 

I really don't know. 

I'm happy to send straight to you... 


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1 wouldn't for now. Wait for andy to reset... 

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These will all generate Qs from Jones 

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20:33:38, Tue 

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Let me ask andy. Hold please. 

2016-05-10 

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Thx 

2016-05-10 

20:35:38, Tue 

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Direct to me per DD 

2016-05-10 

20:36:52, Tue 

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Done. On the way, call me with Qs. On high side, you want unet 
instead? 

2016-05-10 

21:18:31, Tue 

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Wp article out 

2016-05-11 

00:00:30, Wed 

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Just talked to Eric with Q from Andy/D (maybe D) 

2016-05-11 

00:09:18, Wed 

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Eric Smith? 

2016-05-11 

00:10:12, Wed 

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Can you tell me the q? 

2016-05-11 

00:11:05, Wed 

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Got it. Wonder where that is coming from?... 

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00:11:45, Wed 

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Andy or D 

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00:12:05, Wed 

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1 didn't respond with my immediate answer, "of course we did" 

2016-05-11 

00:12:41, Wed 

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1 don't know where it's coming from. Assume Andy either read 
update and/or discussed with D 

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00:13:41, Wed 

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Your mission. Agent Page, should you choose to accept it... 

2016-05-11 

00:14:24, Wed 

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Obviously I'll find out what 1 can tomorrow... 

2016-05-11 

00:49:01, Wed 

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Forgot to ask, did that^^^J issue come up at wrap? Because 
Paarman (acting ead) asked andy for a status update, saying Bob 
had inquired, but 1 could have sworn Andy mentioned to Bill... 

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00:50:52, Wed 

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A) not tracking -1 don't attend any cd wraps (Jones does both 
jobs). Not my section, 1 don't think? \n\n(and Paarman is acting 
ead?!?!) 

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Just covered wrap. 

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Yeah, my q didn't make sense. Disregard. 

2016-05-11 

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Sorry, a cia buddy called looking for me to put in a good word with 
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Your q made sense. I've just missed Jones' meetings today. 

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01:17:54, Wed 

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Yeah, no kidding. Except 1 have like a thousand page litigation 
outline that^H put together that 1 need to review tonight. 

2016-05-11 

01:18:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And among the list of 1000 things 1 need to do is call 1500 or 
whomever to figure how to work 324 mail... 

2016-05-11 

01:26:14, Wed 

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Is your 324mail password messed up? Or you just need a tutorial? 

2016-05-11 

01:27:14, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 never set up an account. Think 1 need them to do something to 
link my token to the account. But 1 don't really know how to do it. 

2016-05-11 

01:31:48, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh. They do. And 1 have no idea what that is. 1 think it's already 
linked to your rsa, but you've got to set up a PIN. 

2016-05-11 

01:32:27, Wed 

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1 figure it's probably not the same as my eras pin. Maybe 1 should 
just try tomorrow... 

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01:32:52, Wed 

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It's not 

2016-05-11 

01:33:06, Wed 

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I've got to get am eras. \n\nProbably\n\nMaybe 

2016-05-11 

09:39:48, Wed 

INBOX 

And reading a NYT article on State placing classified in 
unclassified systems reminded me of my irritation about the brief 
yesterday. 

2016-05-11 

18:10:03, Wed 

INBOX 

Have to go write MYE bullets for Jones \U0001f612\n\nYour end of 
day ones will be better... 

2016-05-11 

21:34:06, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey def have Andy talk to John/George about urgency if he hasn't. 

1 spoke to David,can explain later, tried to communicate the same 
thing to him. Got a "we're waiting on next version of affidavit from 
you." 1 am certain there are other things that can be getting 
prepped. 

2016-05-11 

21:41:43, Wed 

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Dd calling state now 

2016-05-11 

21:42:41, Wed 

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Ooh. Want to hear about it! You already talk to J? 

2016-05-11 

21:43:21, Wed 

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And crap I've got to go in 30 or so 

2016-05-11 

21:44:06, Wed 

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Cancelled m to sit in on this. 

2016-05-11 

21:46:31, Wed 

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Nice. Call me, obviously. The MOA is done/final (State OGC is 
good), just need Jones to sign it tomorrow morning. 

2016-05-11 

21:47:23, Wed 

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No word re anything frornBm| 

2016-05-11 

21:48:14, Wed 

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Are the two cds identified in any other way? 


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Body 

I'm not going. 

So they haven't heard from her yet? 

Just by date of delivery 
With a cover LHM from me 

is calling us back tomorrow. 

Not clear if they have heard from her. David was unaware of any 
contact as of 4:30 

After he researches, or you weren't able to talk to him? 

I left an email but he is returning from twin cities. 

We spoke to him. He will have answers tomorrow. 

I hope to hear later tonight, def tomorrow at 11 mtg with them 

Nice. Send thanks to Andy 

And call me re Laufman 

Oh he's going to ask for update before then. 

I will when I can. 

That's fine. I will call now as well 


That's fine. I will call now as well 

And re call, got it. Just atmospherics on different perspective. 

1^^^^ phone went straight to vm. Left message 

Dd wants email direct to him when/if you hear about|^|. Cc me 
obviously. 

Will do.p 

Great. 

Hey just sent you short email, can you check for tone? 

He called usss today, will call Cia tomorrow. Have much to discuss 
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Why USSS? 

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22:02:23, Wed 

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O:: Before or 

after is fine. 

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Gotta run 

2016-05-11 

22:11:06, Wed 

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K. Me too. Will be on cell 

2016-05-11 

23:27:28, Wed 

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Can answer Qs here if urgent or will be 8:30 (!) when done 

2016-05-11 

23:27:31, Wed 

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Andy is PISSED. Can't believe (even though he can) that doj is just 
going along with it all. Tried calling John and George but no 

answer. 

2016-05-11 

23:27:55, Wed 

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m is refusing 

2016-05-11 

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m is the only real prosecutor. 

2016-05-11 

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1 am. Going out with j^H now to get food. 

2016-05-12 

02:30:36, Thu 

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BTW fwiw, K still in the ofc with me. 

2016-05-12 

11:08:54, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Totally off topic, but I'm kind of bummed: Randy offered to take 
Andy to the offsite using a Blackhawk on Monday. It's easier for 
him to have ^ drive, be it's relatively closer from here. Wah wah. 

2016-05-12 

11:11:37, Thu 

INBOX 

And I'll start percolating^^! up next week. Figure a week or two 
to discuss, then calendar. Though honestly 1 wonder if it's stupid to 


_ even consider before the 15th _ 

INBOX Two days is doable, though, assuming it's not the week he wants to 

make the speech 

OUTBOX Yeah, it probably is. And there's a strong risk andy will say you're 

_too imp ortant to the ca se and nee d to stay here ._ 

OUTBOX yeah, but it might end up being him and I and a hunch of 

others too, and I don't really want that. That's what happened last 
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1 think 1 need to excuse my team and talk to doj, again, his morning 
at 11 about timeliness 

2016-05-12 

13:06:57, Thu 

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Talking with Jon about DoJ. Would like you here - how far out are 
you? 

2016-05-12 

13:09:40, Thu 

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Probably be in the ofc by 9:30 or so. 

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Ok. Let me know. I've got a hard stop (for Jones \U0001f612) at 10 


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Body 

Want me to come straight there? 

Hey need to go meet with NCOS on the uco stuff. 

Updates for you 

Will be in my office (just above you, I think) - sending a UC to 1:00 
so I have a bit more flexibility 
Hi.^H coming through 

With what? 

Sitting in CES with them overnight writing the PSEU form so it's 
ready tomorrow morning for Dana and George to sign. Dana is 

ready. _ 

Good. F-ing finally. 

Holy cow are you still talking?! 

Just finished. Will call. On the way out Eric asked (he suggested no) 

if we needed the meeting tomorrow afternoon 

Did you ask Andy if he still wanted to meet tomorrow? 

I did not. I had left when Eric caught me. I told Eric I deferred to 
Andy about whether or not we needed to meet. We did not talk 
about what we planned to tell the D on Mon. 

Spoke and relayed Andy's message. Told him Andy was 

relaying to Carlin. Richard said he'd wait to hear from on high. 

Carlin and George are definitely going to have to message down 

Can I send that to Andy. 

Think I need an eras.... 

And just got a mtg cancel for mtg tomorrow afternoon with Andy 

Remind story 

Yup. And Eric cancelling eve mtg too. 

Tried tonight but didn't reach him. Will try in am. 

Hey forgot to ask if you mentioned the whole special counsel thing 
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Sleeper was in there when I arrived 

Yup. I'm pissed. Especially be he knows Eric and^^J are tight. 

Soft power. 

Yeah, I know. I already called Jim and sent an email to trisha. 

\U0001f612 _ 

See?!? Perfect 

I walked through my convo with DoJ. Got more info ffomU 
about Laufman. It's a problem. Told Andy that, too. 

What info? 

Who was your poc to get an eras? Or did you just get JG's? 

I did just get^| I wonder what they asked him when he went to 

turn in his property. Just ask jon, no? _ 

Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. 

Talked to^^^f last night, btw. Fie spoke to^J. Shockingly, she 
did not sound surprised about the subpoenas, said she would 

accept service. \U0001f612 _ 

Still saying no about the laptops, but focused on Mills'. Fie said 
they were moving forward on that front as well. Helpfully, 
obliquely told/reminded her pet her prior conments that if she was 
going to call anyone, to do that soon. \U0001f612 Because we're 

just TFIAT bad. _ 

Of, not pet 


Your calendar isn't SO bad today....Jones has his meeting 

scheduled over Eric's farewell. Are you going to that? _ 

I am going, yes. 

Let me see what Jones is thinking. Suppose I cam show up late. 
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I'm sure. 


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I'm thinking about not going with Andy tomorrow, going into to 
work but only working on uco policy and house stuff. I'm very torn. 

\U0001f612 _ 

You should definitely go before Andy 
leaves. You'll have another chance, but the irons hot now. Flip side, 

I really want you (and him, but at least one of you) at D brief. 

Work-wise, probably smarter to go in, I guess. 

Take the helicopter next time.;) 

Yes. ^ just texted. Dd flying with the DAG on the bird. So he'll be 
back for mye. So if there are extra seats. I'll join, if not. I'll come in. 

That's totally cool. 

Where do you leave from, Reagan? 

Troop configuration sits 11 (if you're taking the Blackhawk) but no 
idea how configured. 8, no problem. Take out seats and you can 
cram about 20 all soothed together (but that's SUPER tight). Is^ 

going?_ 

Scootched not soothed. It is NOT soothed. 

First time in a blackhawk? Flelicopter? 

Never been in a blackhawk, or any helicopter at all KalSpMSSiiil 


Well, I really hope you can go. There's got to be enough room - 
even if the DAG takes +2, +2 detail guys, and Andy, that's only 6. 

When will you know? _ 

Tonight? Not sure 

Saw your email. Waiting to do something until I get it "officially" - 
or can I use your email for that? We're going to have to go to NSD. 

I think Bill calling George is the right place to start, then I can 

follow up with 

Wait. Bill said cd will take the lead. 

Sigh. I suppose he'll relay that eventually. \U0001f612 
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And I'm going to ping Jim R tomorrow (or whenever I get it) to say 
hey, per D's request, we've put quite a bit of thought into it, 
including coming up with this, Andy noted you were collecting 

comments, how would you like them. _ 

Well, he hasn't. I'm just going to email him and see if he wants an 
update from last week either tonight or tomorrow morning before 

he goes upstairs. _ 

I'm over my email limit so can't send right now. It's utterly freezing 

outside. Sucks. _ _ 

DAG detail saying only room for Andy. ^ is checking with her 
staff. 

Oof. That sucks. And bullsh*t, unless it's a smaller helicopter. Is it 
DOJ's or ours? If you cant go. I'll take you to lunch and make 
helicopter noises. ;)\n\nl just did a mass cull down on 324mail. 

Talking to Bill at 7:45. Did some open source 

research, no way we get that data on our own. _ 

I know. It has to be nsd. 

I need some clarifying data - just retention, right? While it might be 
helpful to put in Petraeus, Hitselberger, that's only to show they 
are different, ie, involve transmittal to another person. He just 
wants fact patterns where it was only retention, not disclosure, 
right? And taking graviman literally, list will not include more 
serious cases/disclosures which are more than retention. 

Yes, that's what I would say. 


Just finished with Bill 


Talked to 


Bill for about an hour. He mentioned email, said he would send 
(though he hasn't yet). He had a slightly different take than I did 
but we'll get there. His primary concern is asking DoJ in such a way 
that they respond straight to the D (which I can see happening) 
without us getting a chance to review for accuracy / spin. 

Insist it go through the DD. Then I'll give it to you. 

Well I think we start by trying to insist it go thru CD. We'll see. I just 
envision them being whiny about it unless they have something 

already written. _ 

They won't. I guarantee it. 


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Hope springs eternal. I suppose I could ask 


on the DL 


And yes, obviously I agree about it going thru cd first. Was just 
saying if they balk, there's no way rybicki wouldn't insist on it 

coming to us first. _ 

Is that something doj would ordinarily keep good records of? Or 

will this be a lift? _ _ 

If there are so few that someone like^H would literally be able to 
recall them then you have much bigger problems. 


Description might be hard. But I guess we'll see. 

The fbi can come up with description 
20 years is a long time... 

I'd like to make a suggestion though. I DO NOT think you should 
ask^^^J. I think Bill should ask George. is just going to 

bitch and moan. George sees the d three times a week. He is not 

going to say no. _ 

They won't be able to do that. No way. But let THEM come back to 

rybicki about what they can or can't do. _ 

Fine but then George tasks them and they ask me...when am I 
supposed to mention it? Seeing as how I own this program and all. 

Pete. I'm trying to save you some crap from them. Don't get your 
back up about it. When they ask you, you talk about it. What's the 
big deal? All they are going to do when you tell them is wait to 
hear from on high. So all I'm saying is start there. 

Look, I totally get what you're saying and agree with you. Just 

trying to figure out how best to own my program _ 

Ha. \U0001f60a See, my back's not up. Just trying to find the best 
way to play this. 

With this one, coming from the d, just let it trickle down from 
higher. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if George hears it from andy in 

the morning. _ 

Sounds smart 


Haven't heard from| 
\U0001f612 


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Also, remind me story Bill had about 
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chances, for sure 


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Jm is out. You can also work out of PS's office tomorrow. 

your phone rings off the hook. I need some 
uninterrupted work and Internet research time. 

I'll unplug my phone\U0001f636 

|j out tomorrow? 

Yes. Though I presume^ will be there. 

Your call. You're welcome to it. 


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And I'm regretting letting ALL of my UCs go to LV. Trusted to 
check that but my mistake for not double checking. 

And finally almost to HQ. I'll double check.my calendar (an OCA 
mtg this morning i think got moved) but truly I think my office will 

be open all day if you want to use it. _ 

Done with 830....will call from desk if you'll be in car for 5 

Pulling in in 4 

Hey done with staff mtg. 

Calling^! to get info. Just got vm. You in wrap? 

Thought it went well. 


Just left. 


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otta talk toshortly. Haven't heard from Mike. 

Curious to see what Andy and George's convo is about same topic. 

2016-05-17 

01:27:44, Tue 

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Don't read email then. It's^^^J response citing 

USAM 9-19.220 

2016-05-17 

02:01:23, Tue 

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I'm not following his email at all. Whatever, will just deal with it 

tomorrow. 

2016-05-17 

02:03:24, Tue 

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1 think your initial cite may have misdirected to 9-19.221 rather 
than 9-19.220... 

2016-05-17 

02:06:22, Tue 

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Nevermind, I'm wrong. We're interested in documentary materials, 
not privileged ones. \n\nAnd I'M not even an atty 

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HI 1 need DoJ and NSLB to get me an answer, because I'm 
briefing everyone there are different options available. And the 28 
CFR guidance seems problematic from a warrant perspective. 

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1 don't think it is. Plus, it's just policy. 

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Yes, this is true. But let's be honest, it's not like they've pointed to 
the cfr as the reason. So let them come up with something. 

2016-05-17 

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They haven't pointed to it because they haven't done the 
research!!! But when they finally do, presumably before a meeting, 
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1 also hate this case. And it's not even mine. 

2016-05-17 

10:44:39, Tue 

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1 have all of the stress and will get none of the acknowledgement 
for being on the team. But whatever. 

2016-05-17 

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Ok that last statement isn't fair. 

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You are on the team, you do a tremendous amount of work on it. 

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No, I work for him. I'm 100% not on the team. Most of "the team" 

w ouldn't k now who I am. _ _ 

I, and to a lesser extent Jon, know exactly what you do. I thinkH|j 
is ambivalent, for a lot of reasons you understand. \n\nAnd as you 
said, you work for Andy. And you get exposure to and credit for a 
billion other things the team never will. Just happens that this one 
case is a big deal right now. It God willing won't be in a couple of 
months. If you want to tdy out you could be full time in a New York 
minute.\n\nl'm trying to understand the underlying source of your 
frustration - it's across everything that came up yesterday - my 
miscommunication as you drove in about talking to^j to start the 
SW conversation, about my interaction with Bill about Jones, now 
about this, \n\nl think it's a struggle with recognition vs result, with 
soft power. And I worry a bit that your broad consideration of it is 
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Ok that may have been my longest text ever. 

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You in the ofc 

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Hey 1 came up to 7 

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Talked to^^J She said she wants to talk with you and Trisha 
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She disagrees with my view? 

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No. Standby for email 

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Think just wants to understand. 

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The main thing^H mentioned in the conversation was whether 
m thought the director and Deputy should be on the line, 
because they were attorneys who thought that way. There was no 
mention of 1 don't agree with Lisa. My sense was she wanted to 
understand what you have read and thought, nothing more. 

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No way d or Dd should be on. 

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^Bill emailed last night wanting to meet at 7:15. Didn't 


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Just you 

J 

Yes just me with Bill 
I'm sure it's all good. 

I'm guessing some combination of the economic Espionage cases 
on 60 Minutes and tc 

Yeah, that makes sense. I'm glad he has you. And that he knows 

how lucky he is that he does. _ 

I'm also frustrated that I have to spend three and a half hours in a 
trp session for things that are already decided. We waste too much 
time on this process. It's important to do, but not this long, and not 
this c omplicated. _ 

HHl| I am so mad at^^^J right now. He's claiming 
reimbursement for car for 14-28 April (Conf authorized 18-22), 
lodging in Auckland 16-17 (Conf was in Wellington), m&IE in 
Auckland 14-16.\n\nl mean wtf. Have some sense, man. 

Do Not Let Him! 

That's really outrageous. 

I'm not going to. I've got to call him today. Since he didn't get 
business, he's entitled to a delay in route of one night, 3/4 days 
M&IE on each day. I'll let him explain that to me, though. \n\nThe 
rental car, no.\n\nOh, this was all in conjunction with his wife. 
Didn't use Carlson, "Contacted Carlson and determined there is no 
contract carrier to Nz. Due to this fact, and to ensure my wife could 
travel with me at am acceptable cost, I booked through other 

means." _ _ _ i 

In defense of his airfare, what he paid is much less than the Carlson 
fare. 

I DO NOT WANT TO ATTEND THIS\n\nGrump grump grump 

You already leave? \n\nAlso, need to to let me in toH| 
office 

can only do 4 or any time later. You want to try for 430, 

recognizing you have wrap at 5, or keep at 4? _ 

Give me a call when you're done, I am in hell 

Andy headed up. Told him you sat in conference call 

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Wrong focus/level 

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Note the bcc 

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Fie didn't copy me (which is fine), which 1 think is a function of 
editing he did after the fact. Would appreciate a bootleg (or show 
me. I'll give back) just to fact check.\n\nAnd yes. We're wildly lucky 
to have your support. 

\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 

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01:15:28, Thu 

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And on the team ;) 

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\u263a\n\nWhat did you think of Bills email? 

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It was very nice of him to say, which is obviously why 1 sent it. 
\U0001f636 

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Well, you saw my response! 

\n\n\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 back at you 

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Got the briefing materials from ^^^J/trisha. They are WAAAAY 
too long. 

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You gonna edit down or send back? 

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Edit down. It's very well written, just too detailed. 

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Illjjllll is Trishas ^^^^|? 

2016-05-20 

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DoJ playing games 

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withbinfo, and Andy playing into it. Whatever 

2016-05-20 

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1 know. I'll let him know to keep an eye out tomorrow, and let him 
know that it's annoying and that you and need to review it 

first for accuracy. 

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I'm sure someone will send us a copy. 

2016-05-20 

02:43:09, Fri 

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You have every right to be frustrated. But this is partly DOJ'S 
doing as well, with their refusal to do anything without hearing it 
from on high. Flang tight. It's no reflection of you. 

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02:44:49, Fri 

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Yes. Just like^mi refusal to talk to us about interactions with 
until George told Andy. Yes. Everyone learned all kinds of 
lessons. Great support to the team. Thanks. Goodnight. 

2016-05-20 

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I'm sorry. This isn't fair to you. I'm angry and I'm venting to you as a 
friend. 

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I'm not asking you to do anything - in fact, the opposite - I'm 
sincerely asking you not to do or say anything about this. Please. 
\n\nlt will be fine. Thanks for letting me vent. 

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F man i'nT sti 1 rea ly angry 

about the list. Thought I'd be better after sleeping on it, but I'm not 

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I'm going to ask andy to keep an eye out (know which system it's 
on?) and then just say it's one thing when there's a conflict, but for 
routine business like this, this is ridiculous. 

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Ugh. Have two nslb interviews today. Really don't feel like doing 
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Yuck indeed. You all take a long time with them, which is good, 1 
guess. We do 15 minutes.\n\nAlso, I'm thinking you shouldn't 
mention the^^^J nonsense to Andy. I'm irritated, but not 
bother the DD irritated. 

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11:23:43, Fri 

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Yeah, but you know these folks already. Or at least know someone 
who knows them. These are mostly cold interviews.\n\nWe'll see. 

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And 1 just realized I'm going to have to come back downtown after 
briefing at LX, to return all the materials to my office.\U0001f621 

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Leave them at lx! I'm certain^ can find someone to bring them 
back for you. Seriously. 

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What time is your brief? 

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Not sure - 445,1 think? 

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Oof. That's late. I'm SURE you can talk to^ about leaving it in the 
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Hey sent you some email going around this morning. Don't know if 
you noted one of them from last night, ^ said never 

responded to his email for update. We're talking in an hour, I'm 
going to encourage him to speak to Andy and about it, that 

it's undermining his position and effectiveness (to Andy) and that 
it's unprofessional (to^^^f). Obvious problem is its not easy for 
anyj to say that to the DD, nor personality. \n\nThe best 

way may simply be for him to say to Andy, you know, 1 contacted 
to follow up on the D's request and he didn't so much as 
send me an email, even to tell me he was going to talk to you. Let 
Andy infer the right leadership action / response. 

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14:00:19, Sat 

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Got it. And ha ha, just realized the D is out on Monday. Sof^m 
won't be giving it direct to him anyway. 

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14:07:25, Sat 

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Ha ha indeed. 1 think a slight tweak to^H message is, when 
Rybicki's request email went out, he asked who would do this. 1 
said CD would. If that's what you want, then you have to help me 
with^^|\n\nl MEAN C'MON!H£SA^M, AND CAN'T BE 
BOTHERED TO RETURN EMAIL BECAUSE HE 

HAS THE DD ON SPEED DIAL. 

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Moving on. 

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Honestly 1 would suggest he say the second thing you said in that 
long text, just that^^^f didn't bother following up with me at 
all, and just leave it at that. You can even tell ^ if you want that 1 
got mad/frustrated at andy for agreeing to let it go straight to the 
DD, and 1 don't want it to seem like we're piling on the dd. 

2016-05-21 

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1 think you're right re approach. 1 hesitate to say what you did, 
except it's an important point re the potential 
counterproductiveness of piling on. 

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Go ahead and tell him. Can just be a reflection of you getting angry 
re^^^f and me telling you that 1 was mad too re email thing. 

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Hi. Got the ERAS on for the first time...\U0001f60a 

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That's good!\n\nl am STRESSED OUT. Have had an influx of prep 
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But this is ecpa, right? And there are decent ogc 
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Is Andy out at all next week? 

(le, not this coming week, the one after. 

Not that I'm aware of. 

Can you power up eras now amd work until 
physically need to be in? 

It's all on the unclassified side. \U0001f612 


? Or you 


You can eras that, too. But not your work desktop/hard drive 

Yeah, it's documents for Andy's prep today that I need to edit. 

Yay. Andy just asked me to sit in on the 2:00. 

And feel free to forward to Andy if you haven't already. Enough 

time passed... _ 

I'm fortunate to work with you. \U0001f636 

Bill did send them at 7:04. Andy sent them to me at the same time 

I sent them to him . _ _ 

Jjust said that on the npr news bulletin tonight at like 5:00 that 
they reported that the fbi investigation into Clinton was almost 
completed. He doesn't remember the sourcing. Found it very 

curious given the timing of today. Just fyi. _ 

Yeah saw that on a couple of Google News hits. Will go check it 
out. God I hope they're right. \n\nProbably going to pull the plug 

on my going to NQLA...\U0001f61e _ 

This isnt good\n\nOfficial: Feds Are Investigating Gov. McAuliffe's 
Campaign Donations | WAMU 88.5 - American University 
Radio\nhttp://m.wamu.org/#/news/16/05/23/official_fedsJnvesti 
gating_gov_mcauliffes_campaign_donations 

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wait I, of.course. also happy to relate intetview, though truly, not 
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Traffic is really really really bad. 

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Just finished with 

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1 just sent you an extremely obnoxious opinion piece in the Times. 
You might get questions about^^f, so just fyi. 

2016-05-26 

10:40:46, Thu 

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Hi just saw it, and responded.a douche. And a felon. 
\U0001f612 But thanks for the heads up. Kills me how much our 
agenda gets driven by adverse press coverage. 

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What time are you driving in?\n\nReviewing first section of final 

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Daily 830s until final report is done. Since Andy wants it 
substantively complete by the 15th 

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That stinks for all of you. 

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This report is going to be a bear to get done by 

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Hi! 1 HAVE TWO HOURS OF BUDGET DISCUSSION AND 1 MIGHT DIE! 

!!!! 

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Oh hey remind me, let’s talk state mou on the way in. 

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Should work. 

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Hj Hi. Just talked with Bill. Remind me and convo this 

afternoon and earlier convo with him, Randy, you. 

2016-05-27 

23:21:56, Fri 

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Headed home now, in the event you want to talk about convo with 
bill. 

2016-05-28 

11:52:09, Sat 

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Headed off to interview now 

2016-05-28 

15:31:40, Sat 

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Bill said he was going to tell Andy today that everything went well, 
and that he'll provide him more info on Tues. Bill said you should 
feel free to talk about it if you want (after you and I talk about it -1 
framed it as we were going to talk later today).\n\nSo I'd wait at 
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delete files. I don't think it's emails on Knox. I hate these things... 

I can't check for email..! 


I think it's knox. Can you go on 324 mail and do some deleting? 




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Paula Broadwell, David Petraeus and the Afterlife of a Scandal 
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Man, that article was depressing. Accurate and depressing. 


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And man, that article is depressing. 
Yeah, it's depressing because it's true] 


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It is. You think she should have been prosecuted? 


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How bad is your work week ahead? 

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And god, going to thinking about work just makes me really mad 

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about the| meeting...\U0001f621 

2016-05-30 

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You it. 

idea. Haven't had a chance to check calendar yet. 

2016-05-30 

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Yeah, though 1 need to tell you about a bill - Paul convo he told me 

23:51:48, Mon 


about. Not just the case, broader. And concerning. 

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Okay. 

2016-05-31 

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Not urgent, can certainly wait until tomorrow. Have 

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just been thinking a lot about it and want to bounce off you. 




2016-05-31 

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Ok. On eras. Let me finish up.... 

00:58:51, Tue 



2016-05-31 

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Want to talk about bill and -r-jotjW'ess 

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EEM _■ 

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Heading in to my 830. Will call you when I'm out 

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In with andy. Be by soon. 

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I'm coming with mye updates 

13:38:11, Tue 


next. 

2016-05-31 

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Hey were just spit balling ideas for the D, wanted go give you the 

21:16:27, Tue 


option to participate. 




2016-06-01 

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Remind me to tell you tomorroe or elsewhere tonight convo 1 had 

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i 11. 

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Also remind me we need to talk nfpo still. 

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God. On an interminable job interview, 

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I’m on a call. 

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Where were^^^^^J^J? 

2016-06-01 

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1 don’t know. 1 told them both this morning and via email last nght 

18:14:55, Wed 


(neither of which mentioned the DD...;)) 

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You talkin' 'bout evidence yet? 

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talked to GC at other agency, they were unaware of 
discrepancies, they will look into it tomorrow. 

Just Td up State issue with Bill 



oing back to find ■, wil 

call you after I talk to him. _ 

I think I'm coming to work on Saturday. I just can't take this. 


Leaving early/falling behind?\n\nGoing to talk toH now 


Yes. 


Just finished with JM, he went in to talk to 
Andy. Can give you dump if you want 
Yeah I can get a dump 



And ■ just followed up on what you talked about with 


me. 


God this is KILLING me. Jones is insistent on cal ling 


And 


is on AL today.... 


Sorry, just talked to 


To the lawyer? And? 


They finally got the call done 


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No answer. Told her subpoena at COB tomorrow. She's going to 
confer with clients and get back. Please hold on info until I send to 
Bill. 


U I have a 930-1030 with stupid dia. But will try and get all of 
mye done at the 830-9, 


Gotta call Bill, do you want to listen in for summary? 


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Done with edits, I have copies for you. 


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Was talking to Bill 

2016-06-06 

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Spoke to Bill. He's very appreciative. 

2016-06-06 

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2016-06-07 

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Note bcc on email 1 just sent \U0001f60a 

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1 did. Thank you. 

2016-06-07 

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Think I'm going to pull up eras in about 15, so we can always text 
there... \U0001f636 

2016-06-07 

00:34:45, Tue 

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fftj Well of course you know I'll be on there (eras) 

2016-06-07 

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UjHave to go in and go thru notes for brief to usdi this morning 

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Mtg with bill at 9 to talk 702 

2016-06-07 

12:26:28, Tue 

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God 1 want to sit in but absolutely no reasonable reason to 

2016-06-07 

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Plus 1 have to either metro or drive to Pentagon.... 

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Yes, 1 guessed that. \U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 Just 
getting out now, though he feels better prepared so that's good. 

2016-06-07 

21:36:45, Tue 

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Can you lync before you go tonight? Qs from Bill about direction 
from Andy coming out of ^ brief. 

2016-06-08 

09:38:13, Wed 

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Reading the f*cked up first cut of consent letters. They need a lot 
of work. 

2016-06-08 

11:05:41, Wed 

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Did 1 send you the draft consent letters last night? Thought 1 did 
but don't see it in sent folder, \n\nl have NO idea why we let 
counsel take first crack with pen. 

2016-06-08 

11:06:36, Wed 

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No, you didn't. And 1 have no idea. Probably 
aren't real prosecutors. 

2016-06-08 

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Just resent. No idea what happened first time. Maybe hung in eras 

2016-06-08 

11:23:10, Wed 

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Lis, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. 1 was working until close 
to 1. \U0001f61e\U0001f614 

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I'm REALLY angry about the consent letter right now. Much worse 
than last night. \n\nlt's the little things, like her writing no agents 
will participate in the otd review. That sense of entitlement about 
how we staff is the result of Andy not simply saying "no" to doj 
about the obnoxious filter staffing demand 

2016-06-08 

12:17:02, Wed 

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Filter says 2 atty one SA one IA but makes no mention of 
expanding if merited bu the volume of work. 

2016-06-08 

16:23:36, Wed 

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Remind me 1 need to talk to you about Andy taking Moffa as his +1 
to WH nextThurs 

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20:07:50, Wed 

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Ooh. Yes. \n\nl'm still waiting on Andy. Paul A. walked in 20 
minutes ago. And now Steinbach is here...\U0001f621 

2016-06-08 

20:11:07, Wed 

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K. You need to talk to Andy alone about media stuff, obviously 

2016-06-08 

20:17:31, Wed 

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I'm still waiting for andy! Just leave it in my ofc? 

2016-06-08 

20:25:57, Wed 

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m| just called, he's just leaving main justice. They all want to 
talk to me privately before group call at 4:40. 

2016-06-08 

20:26:17, Wed 

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Okay that's concerning. 

2016-06-08 

20:27:40, Wed 

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Did they all just kind of hop in front of you? 1 totally should have 
just buzzed in and walked it down to you...\n\nYeah, 1 know. 

Hoping they're just trying to enlist my service in calming OTD and 
not letting perfect be enemy of the good 

2016-06-08 

20:40:47, Wed 

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Going into wrap. Will hit you at 5. 

2016-06-08 

21:00:30, Wed 

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Hi. Walking back to baker call 

2016-06-08 

21:01:38, Wed 

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Frustrated over this whole damn article issue. Where do we stand? 

2016-06-08 

21:01:57, Wed 

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No go rej Will share shortly. 

2016-06-08 

21:02:36, Wed 

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Assume also no to some other third option. \n\nOn Conf call with 
doj 

2016-06-08 

21:02:42, Wed 

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Pre-call was fine 

2016-06-08 

21:03:27, Wed 

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No, not necessarily. That didn't come up. You might be able to go 
up there now and follow up with Kortan. 

2016-06-08 

21:05:51, Wed 

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What did you tell Quinn? 

2016-06-08 

21:05:59, Wed 

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1 can't leave this call right noe 

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And 1 sure don't want to do a single thing right now without Andy's 
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2016-06-08 

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Well they're going to talk to the reporter soon and he's not going 
to do a damn thigh once we say "never mind" 

2016-06-08 

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Thing not thigh 

2016-06-08 

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Hey I'm on a call. Ttyl. 

2016-06-08 

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Yep. I'm going to let this issue drop then... 

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Oh boy. Just yelled 

2016-06-08 

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Oh man. Why? 

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Tell you in person. Laughing with Moffa about it. 

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22:02:01, Wed 

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1 called them outside the big group to say, look, we're giving on a 
lot of things on the very margins and don't have much left to 
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|£fl\n\nMoffa said, "you threw a brush back pitch, didn't even hit 
him, he throws off his helmet and charges the mounds." 

Bottom line in their first counter offer DOJ is giving up a ton. I said 
fine, we can live with this, but this is about the most we can live 
with. So if you expect an extended back and forth with^^J don't 

give so much right out of the gate. _ 

In with Andy now. 

Cool. Just sent you email you should note to him. My (and his) 

recollection was right;) _ 

Hey Bill is here in my office, talking about WSJ thing 

Kortan just came in. I have more. I'll call you from the car. 

Ok. Anything to pass to Bill now, or that he should call andy? He 
thinks we should play for time. 

Yup. Why? You mean with andy? 

Nope. Me and you. \n\nBut yes, I wanted to ask later about with 

Andy _ 

Btw, Andy said let's hold in finding out the answer for now. 

I want to know, have been talking about it with jon for a couple of 
days. You think I should wait? I don't know what we could do with 
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Anything interesting out of convo you couldn't or didnt want to 

share in front of Bill? _ 

(Perfectly fine if not, just following up before everything is OBE 
tomorrow) 

Amd did you see request to move meeting up 30 minutes? I 

kind of like 10-1130 but I think I can... _ 

No, nothing additional. That was everything. 

I can too. Np. 

And man, EVERYONE'S angry. WF doesn't want to give people back 
for filt er, radio silence from DoJ,^^J angry about the consent 

jetter^_ 

Yikes! Have a meeting with D at 11 because apparently I'm the only 

one read in to a program (nfi) _ 

How can you be going to brief on something for which you have 

nfi? _ 

Call her now tell her andy is calling please. 

Just talked to her she is at her desk - not cell - waiting for the call 

He called trisha instead -1 gave him both numbers. Don't know 
wha t came of the c onvo. 

Ew.^^^ better prepared 

I talked with Bill; he had spoken with Andy but Andy had not yet 

tried to re ach out for Jim _ 

Does^| know?!?!? I told her to wait...\U0001f61e 

I know, I tried. But in case she was in the metro or something I 

wanted him to be able to reach s omeone else. _ 

She does. She should be calling you for^^^^ cell number. 

And god it's really infuriating that^J doesn't answer his phone. 

The goddamn Deputy is trying to reach his| and can't! 

Hey I just talked to her 

Apparently a bunch of emails going arouns 

Yup just sent to you. 

She said JB hadn't responded and wondered if she should send to 
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Thanks. I was going to ask^J to include me but she was harried. 
She just called. 

I did too. 

Pis forward me what she sends? 

I agree with you re Jim. Frustrating. 


Np. Just talked to I 


I hardly did anything 


rcailing^H. Tonight may never end. 


\U0001f60a 


Fine. Talked about haters, his climate survey, why we bother to do 

this. _ 

All great topics. The climate surveys are an annual kick in the balls. 

I can't IMAGINE^| 

Fie read them to me. 11 pages long. His are cruel too. 

The anonymity does it. Brings out the internet nasty 
Check vm 

Program is about to start, but please confirm here that you got the 
vm. 

Sorry was in sioc can talk now 

Check vm please. Andy called. Program just started so I can only 
text 

Yes otd is ready. \n\nD is the one who asked how early we could 
talk tentative scheduling. D asked if we could do that now (at date 
of last brief). I said I thought we should wait until we had laptops in 
hand. D said, I think that's right. Thats what I was going off of 

Okay, let me text andy. 

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Yes, he knew that. That's why he called. I just asked him whether 
he wants to wait until we actually have eyes on docs. 

Also, what I discussed with^^H was don't discuss specific 
dates, but throw the willingness out there, tell if we find a 

lot of material on laptops we might need more time 

I just andy to call your cell if he has more qs. 

Andy said:\n\nl am inclined to wait for now. Let's get a peek at it 
first, see how long oyd thinks it will take to make sense of 

anything, etc. _ 

Just talked with him, all good 

K. Thanks 

Hey talked with him just now. Pis give me a holler when you're 
done, want to ensure he knows I'm not questioning what he wants 
to do, just explaining why we proposed reaching out 

Okay. It just started so it is going to be a while 

Np. I think we're good, but I just ran thru what D said. Agreed with 
Andy that smarter thing is to wait and see what's on there but 
likely no way we hit summer solstice if we do that. 

Funny, I'm sure it's perfectly fine but got that funny feeling telling 
the DD that the D said something different from him. Andy noted 
he told that we wouldn't schedule interview until laptops 

were reviewed and D didn't have that info, then said he'd take care 
of D.\n\nl just don't want him thinking that I felt he needed to 

explain himself to me. _ 

I really wouldn't worry about it, but yes, of course we can talk. 

I know you're right but still. Besides, I want to congratulate each 

other once we get these dammed things _ 

Also, funny, mentioned to Andy what was going on, Toscas had 
already updated him. \U0001f612 

I know you've heard me complain a thousand times, but that sh*t 

fromKILLS me _ 

The DD also calls you directly. This 
whole case is fucked up. It is what it is. 

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That's awesome. Congratulations. 

And thank you, re congrats. Thanks to you, too. :) 

His wording cuts through both the bs story, the "owe apology," and 

everythin g else. Send t o b oth? _ 

Yes, I will. Probably to^ with cc to^m 

I agree 

Don't really have a need to talk work, gonna 
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I definitely think that is the case. 

I don't know that you should wait until Monday to send it. Sleep on 
it and send tomorrow? Or maybe Sun morning for something to 

reflect on in services. _ 

Ok (re Andy) \U0001f636 

Yeah, I'll either send late tonight or tomorrow. I just need to figure 
out whether how^^^H spells her name. 


out whether how^^^J spells her name. 

Question for you re Jims email. Is that your voice, ie, would you say 
it in terms of fbi core values?\n\nl guess if they ever went to eeo 
opr, or anyone else that's a damn hard statement to find fault 
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Would know? 

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know what? 

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It's not my voice, but who cares? 

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Hell, Jim wants to refer them to inspection for saying something 
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Fair enough re voice. Just go with it 

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Yup. 1 mean the worst they're going to say is what are you talking 
about we weren't making fun, but at least 1 should end it. 

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Yes, and this does it. 

2016-06-10 

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Yep!!! I'll send you my calm professional answer 


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And it's entirely cya. 

Of course it is! 

Jerky. \U0001f621 
He really is. 

Like his assiduous notes of everything I said in these 11:00 

me eti mgs..._ _ 

So I'm very torn. Email back to^^^^ on fbi net or unet? 

Unet for the email. Otd is done with phase 1 

Wow, that was quick 

Why unet? I was actually thinking fbi net so at least it can't be 

forwarded outside. _ 

Find anything in allocated space? 

Yeah. I think they underpromise because of the 10% of the time 
things go horribly badly. \n\nFair enough. You can eras it 

tomorrow and they can read on Mon... _ 

I'm on eras now. Just going to send it off and be done with it. 

Am typing it up on fbi net now. 

This gave me chills. I'm proud of these girls. Stupid f-ing 
bigots.\n\n2 Valedictorians in Texas Declare Undocumented 

Status, and Outrage Ensues http://nyti.ms/lWHYYYE _ 

You've got to read the article I sent. I'm infuriated. I f-ing hate 

people . _ ___ _ 

I started. And while i hate Trump, part of me thought 
would not/may not get into^J because they're white and not 

from buttf*ck Texas...H6362 _ 

I'm torn between their achievement and the reality of the 
limitations it places on others. All of that separate and distinct 
from the bigoted hatred of half (it seems ) of our population. 

Dude. THESE GIRLS ARE THE VALEDICTORIANS IN THEIR CLASS. 

AND ENGLISH IS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE. AND THEY OVERCAME 

SERIOUS ODDS. THEY HAVE EARNED IT. _ 

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I'm saying the difference between equal opportunity and equal 

outcome is hazier as you get closer. _ 

THESE GIRLS DIDN'T EVEN HAVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY! What 
are you talking about?! 

I'm not saying they didn't deserve it. I'm saying their background 
gave them an advantage the upper class white boy didn't get 

Is that fair? 

We're not talking about south Asians in the same socio-economic 

class. _ 

They earned it. But so did lots of others. 

And I'm not talking about these two. I'm talking about the pros and 
cons of considering anything other than merit for admission. 

No it f-ing did not. Their background gave them an advantage?! 
They grew up in a home, in all likelihood, where their parents were 
illiterate. Probably wholly uneducated. Undoubtedly poor. Yeah, 
those lucky girls who got to bubble in "Mexican." 

I get that would further slash minority representation. 

I'M TALKING ABOUT THESE TOO. 


Sorry, I'm really mad. 

And you ARE talking about these two. You said their background 
gave them an advantage that upper white kids didn't get and that 

is completely BULLSHIT. _ 

Yes, their background did. They deserve to go, as do thousands of 
others 



If they were the valedictorian and we undocumented and had the 
same story, I dare say they'd be going the same damn place. 


That is bs. And I agree with that. That is fake diversity, and we both 
know that. Don't you dare lump these girls, who on top of 
everything else, had the courage to state that they were 
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These two are being held up because of the broader issue. Distill 
the calculus, and the argument. What is the value of diversity such 
that we can measure it against other qualifications? Like being 
young and rooting for Bernie until you start earning a paycheck, 1 
find my views on admissions / hiring have been changed by 
watching^^^B^^^^^^^^II 

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I'm not lumping them in. They are a great success story. But the 
question of their story is whether or not the process unduly 
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1 have no idea if this is accurate, but clearly, she deserves to go to 
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have the appropriate weighting of diversity in the eduactional 
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Did you read her speech? I got chills. \U0001f636 


This can't be good for the usic.\n\nThe Chinese Hackers in the Back 

Office http://nyti.ms/lXNpS20 _ 

We're going to be dealing with this hve for the next year. 
\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 
? The guy in Tampa 

Why? I saw on the CT notification he was known to us. Bad? 

Or are you saying simply because that happens every time with 
each ^|...wasn't sure if there was something else prompting your 
comment. \n\nFor sure there will be a show. \U0001f621 


We re never going to hear the end of it. 


And yeah, the no win of the narrative. 

Hi. I may go insane editing this. You simply cannot edit with 12 
people. 

****Also, remind me to tell you to flag for Andy^^J emails we 
(actually ICIG) found that have portion marks (C) on a couple of 
paras. DoJ was Very Concerned about this, willing to bet they will 

tell George _ 

Found on the laptops? 

No. Found on the 30k provided to State originally. 

No one noticed. And while minor, it cuts against "I never send or 
received anything marked classified" 

So why would they tell George? 

Which may or may not be a big deal, but it is notable. Easier to 
explain on Lync or in person, \n\nl will put on bullets tonight, 

which I am sending to you _ 

Because they're worried, holy cow, if the fbi missed this, what else 

was missed? _ 

Which I get, because I had the same worry. \n\nAnd they like 
snitching to George 

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You know how to get my attention/interest. \U0001f60a 
Yeah, well this will. 

Tease....;) 

Get us a clue... 

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Correct. 

Do I need to back off what I told just now based on our 


Do I need to back off what I told just now 

lunch line convo? 

I told him I had to get confirmation from 7th floor 
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Just relayed to I 


I, he's calling Toscas 


Yup. Toscas literally just called. Andy couldn't talk, so we will 
discuss soon. 

Hey do you anticipate mye due-outs tonight? I think I'm going to 

get out of here. _ 

No. I hope to be leaving in 10-15 minutes. Andy on with toscas 
now. 

Arghh! Ok I'll wait...\n\nAnd thanks 
Don't! Truly. 

15 minutes is easy...\U0001f636 
Okay, will call you in 5. 

K.\n\u263a 

And ha, Bill called right after we talked. I guess it's good to answer 
your phone when the boss calls at 8 ... 

Put a hard copy of the report in your center desk drawer 

Set up a conference call so you can dial in as we take care of 
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And hey, 2) ^^^HsaidToscas called, said Andy told him to lock in 
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And hey, 3) I have an answer for interview location. Brilliant. (Jon 

thought of it). Completely handles the issue. _ 

On September 13, 2007, Martin appeared on Comedy Central's The 
Colbert Report to discuss Mother Teresa's fifty-year sense of 
abandonment by God which had much coverage in the media at 
the time. Martin appeared several more times on The Colbert 
Report, once to discuss Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the U.S. in 
April, 2008,[8] and again on February 23, 2009 to discuss how 
poverty (or, at least, reducing the importance one places on 
material goods) can bring one closer to God.[9]\n\nOn March 18, 
2010, Martin was invited to the program in the wake of Glenn 
Beck's suggesting that Catholics run away from priests who preach 
"social justice."[10] Martin noted that "social justice addresses the 
things that keep people poor" and "asks you why are these people 
poor." He added that "Christ asked us to work with the poor.... In 
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\U0001f60a saw it this morning, meant to read it but didn't. 

I really like David Brooks.\n\nThe Building Blocks of Learning 

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Want to ask doj to ask h to come to dc. Do interview at hq. Or 
nvra. 

Sure why not. Is especially important if the goal is to prevent leaks. 
Trump's talking about the investigation 

Hey heads up, Moffa is telling^ because he's been staffing it, 
was allegedly angry a follow up Q she had about the 
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Yikes. 


Yeah not a big deal - was supposed to in PDB today but will run 
tomorrow. Info is not time sensitive. I think it was more (all 
allegedly according to our PDB people, who may be dramatic) that 
she didn't get her question answered before the follow on briefing. 

ambushed me...\U0001f612\n\nWill call when out 

Much better numbers for you :D 

Hey see email. Can you call me? Q which will have to go to Andy 

Now we're talking about Clinton, and how a lot of people are 
holding their breath, hoping. 

DID YOU TELL HIM THAT YOU ARE THE LEAD ON THAT CASE?! 


Andy just called me with a question that I should remember from 
my doj days and don't. Makes me frustrated. Will need to look it 

up tonight. _ 

Just can't remember what kind of contact is permissible once a 
subject has lawyered up pre-charges. I know an ausa can't contact, 
but I thought a source still could. Usao and doj are saying no, and I 

seriously can't remember. _ 

But hasn't been charged? I think we have much more latitude than 
attys do, provided we don't coordinate (which I think triggers 
McDade stuff). But I'm far less an authority than you. I do think we 
can use sources, though. Call a good cdc, they'll know. Sadly I can't 

p oint y ou to one ajt^f_ 

Yes, that's my recollection, but I just don't remember. 

Oh god yes. No good can come of that. Your dad know you're 
heading up the case yet? 

Well you may not come back if they go 

video route, right? 

Video, no. I just doubt that is going to happen. 

I hope not (re video). But it's clear that's how JR is pushing 

Andy's not. That's got to be equal sway, at the very least. 

Nor Bowdich. Nor pretty much anyone else as best I can tell. Thats 
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And still, i don't think doj has the nerve - or that it ultimately serves 
their interests - to tell him he cant, or even that he shouldn't, do it. 

I agree. But those couple of hours to takes to set it up could be 

EXTREMELY awkward. _ 

Yeah, but you know that doesn't really matter. They'll call rybicki, 

or andy. _ 

Can't enter after midnight, you mean? 

And they say, sorry, he hasn't said, exactly. We'll pass a message to 

him b _ 

Yes re entrance 

Not credible. Surely even if opa doesn't say what it's about, it will 

be obvious. _ 

And so what are they gonna do? 

Everyone over there says, "we left a message. Sounds like it's 

about.." _ 

Doj will be fine. They'll huff and puff but ultimately what are they 
going to do? Truly. In 4 hours? They can barely assemble a 

conference call in that time. . _ 

Announce at 11 and you lose and hour and a half to lunch time 

confusion anyway. It'll be Ok... _ 

They can tell the D no. And he really wants to avoid straight up 
insubordination if he can... 

Florida has a different rule re represented parties. It is really bad 

for us. _ 

Oh. What was the answer? All this based on bar rules 

Yup. Pretty much as soon as we tell usao, we are prohibited from 
making any contact. Terrible disincentive to not talk to your usao. 

Funny how it all comes down to state bar rules. Seems very 
capricious, like there should be some supremacy clause to get us 

out of it... _ 

And damn...a mess that made its way up to DD level? 

It didn't apply to us, until dumas congress passed mcdade. 

Yes. Big implications for the continues investigation against 

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I'm not sure 1 agree. They VERY MUCH want to be standing side by 
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The legislation doc? 1 can help proof if you want. 

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Hey! one of your jerkies? 

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Sorry she's not - just looked it up. The one above is retiring soon. 

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Hey. Meeting with my cyber guy, think he's looking for his next gig. 

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Damn your schedule got sucky. You have any time before wrap? 

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He want a job in CD4? 

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Mills' laptop unallocated space analysis is done! Guess (roughly) 
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How much? 

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Scope 

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12:45, but I won't be there. \U0001f621 

Can you conference call in for the first 15 minutes? SIOC can set up 
a bridge easily. Or do you need classified? 

Not really.^ will handle. 

Andy out m-w next week, or just m-t? 

Bill went long, Jon and I have to talk to him about MYE then I'm 

running.,.:D _ 

Bill needed to unpack the D speech vs video issue. For an hour. 

And while I'm thinking about it, I did not tell Bill about discussion re 

loop back with David M _ 

Np. No one else is really tracking that right now. 

You should read this. Kinda makes me like/feel sorry for the 
guy.\n\nWill Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole? 

http://nyti.ms/28JuKjm _ 

And great, 10,000 emails came in requiring us to respond to 
proposed gun legislation tonight. And I did and now I'm wired. 

\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 _ 

Hi. Just leaving my meeting now. How we make law in this country 

is offensive and irresponsible. \U0001f621 _ 

I know it is. Its why i LOATHE congress. Can't wait to hear the story. 

Hey can I put what you told me about the Privacy Act mtg in the 
nightly bullets to Bill, including her going to beginning of next D 
brief? Will not provide detail other than to say mtg occurred today. 

You're kidding about the Giacalone article, right? 


Oh. Christ. I thought I had another problem to deal with. 

If course I want to hear nsd screw-job story. Also relay mtg at fed 
programs,thinks it's g oing to have to gcrto dag 

And instead I'm busting my butt trying to fight stupid 
legislation. 

Which isn't going to pass! That's the silly thing - OCA and OLA 
ought to be able to say, give this some effort so everyone knows 
where we stand, but understand it won't pass, so don't stress too 
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It didn't pass, but oca says it's not dead, and is likely to reoccur. 

2016-06-24 

01:12:19, Fri 

INBOX 

Just talked to^^^J Not official, but looks like DC for interview 
venue. Should have confirmation tomorrow morning. 

2016-06-24 

10:50:07, Fri 

OUTBOX 

This is good news. \n\nVW to Pay Over $10 Billion for U.S. 

Emissions Scandal http://nyti.ms/2902eut 

2016-06-24 

14:06:35, Fri 

INBOX 

And done with Bill. Got a project, lots to talk to you about. Big 
bureau future structure stuff 

2016-06-24 

14:06:41, Fri 

INBOX 

Plus great gossip 

2016-06-24 

14:06:50, Fri 

INBOX 

Like Jones to replace BBS!! 

2016-06-24 

17:35:56, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey let me know when 1 can stop by and tell you about a call which 
may come from agency to 7th floor... 

2016-06-24 

23:10:15, Fri 

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We have no idea when it will be right now... 

2016-06-24 

23:10:58, Fri 

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Very true. Or if it even happens 

2016-06-24 

23:11:16, Fri 

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But it would be a mistake not to 

2016-06-24 

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A mistake, huh?;) 

2016-06-24 

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Ha. 1 meant not to have a statement^ - ' ' • ” ' 

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2016-06-25 

11:33:22, Sat 

INBOX 

And unrelated, stupid brexit. Lost^H in tsp IN ONE DAY. 1 know 1 
won't draw on that for years, average return over time, stick with 
investment stategy and blah blah blah, but Jesus. 

2016-06-26 

01:23:43, Sun 

OUTBOX 

What a brazen, bald - faced joke. Evangelical Christians should be 
insulted.\n\nA Born-Again Donald Trump? Believe It, Evangelical 
Leader Says http://nyti.ms/294uH2j 

2016-06-27 

10:29:20, Mon 

INBOX 

What time does Andy leave? Or is your whole day bad? 

2016-06-27 

10:31:49, Mon 

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2:00. I'm busy through 4:00. 

2016-06-27 

11:18:43, Mon 

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What does your early morning look like today? Need to grab 

Andy s markup from you 

2016-06-27 

11:21:26, Mon 

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I'm busy starting at 9. Free from 9:30 to 10. Busy again at 10. 

2016-06-27 

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You're also welcome to come to mine but I'm figuring yours is 
more convenient. \n\nNow you apparently have NO gaps in your 
schedule. 

2016-06-27 

11:36:43, Mon 

INBOX 

Pope went to Armenia and talked about genocide. Turkey p*ssed... 

2016-06-27 

15:42:34, Mon 

INBOX 

And hey work stuff for DD (though 1 suppose you can do via phone 
or email), pis call me when you have a moment 

2016-06-28 

00:24:57, Tue 

INBOX 


2016-06-28 

00:25:15, Tue 

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Relaying stories of interview prep. 1 need to talk to my guys 

2016-06-28 

00:26:04, Tue 

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Uh oh. What did he say? 

2016-06-28 

00:27:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Just them picking stupid shit to focus on/ask about. Stuff we 
speculate but don't know, to which there is a fairly easy response, 
and which doesn't advance our understanding of fundamental 
issues 

2016-06-28 

00:29:13, Tue 

INBOX 

And re work, goddammit I'm frustrated. 1 don't want genius, but be 
f*cking smarter about things. 

2016-06-28 

02:17:28, Tue 

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And hey, 1 need to know who has access to bpms and will help me 
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And hey. 1 want to thank you for today. My self-interest asidep&l 

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your advocacy with Andy and Bill and everything you do every 

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2016-06-28 

02:34:09, Tue 

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1 don't know who that is. Does^H? Probably no. 

2016-06-28 

02:34:29, Tue 

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SB? 

2016-06-28 

02:35:41, Tue 

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IjJ does not. MaybeBut 1 don't know about her 

2016-06-28 

02:37:21, Tue 

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Yeah, might be too close. 

2016-06-28 

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is too^mni 

2016-06-28 

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And you should ask^| about Harbach soon before it is too late 

and he ne ver speaks to you again._ 

I'll ask U, though funny thing is I think he will be ok with it, just 
like he was the Mills preamble. Because both this and that are 

reasonable and help the cause _ 

Meanwhile I'm sitting here spinning in my head about the case. 
Angry at myself for not thinking about raising Judiciary and Intel 
committees. I have in the past, but the time to do it was yesterday. 
Clearly the man is, though. Just feels like I dropped the ball. 

And the more I think of it, no way the D or DD should call ICIG. 

Delegate that to Bill. _ 

Remember at the beginning of the case, Randy was delegating 
contact with him to^^f and Jon... 

That's great advice but they all kind of tumble around in there 
together, inseparable. \U0001f615\n\nThe interview needs 
tweaking, the 302s need a fine edit, the summaries need to be 
written, I need to see what I did wrong or forgot or put off and not 
do that again and I need to do background for the job application, 
combination of I'm perfect for the job and not good enough and 

not going to get it and and and. _ 

You're probably not going to get it. But that's not because you're 
not good enough. That's because of the egos of other people in our 
organization. So we'll try the best we can, and know that you'll get 

it eventually. _ 

I'll be retired, eventually. Certainly well before I get to AD, if I have 
to spend the time in each job that miraculously doesn't apply to 
the chosen few. But I need my CT club card to do that. 


In fairness, you've been a SC for four months. We'll do our 
research, but I think you're going to be hard pressed to find even a 

CT SC who was promoted that quickly. _ 

I will have completed five months by next weekend and be into my 

6th month _ 

Grumble grumble grumble. Look. I'm responsible for all the career 
choices I've made. And as you've pointed out, I wouldn't change 
them.^^^^^^^l for making me understand and own and see 
that as a positive, \n\nl just get really angry and dispirited at seeing 
less (frequently MUCH less) competent leadership advance. Case in 
point: who's my new boss? Who are all these great SACs with Cl 
backgrounds? 

Ok I'm done. I'll put in for jobs I want and work hard and well no 
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Also, I'm skipping the CD 1 to work on midyear. 


God I am getting GRILLED by Laufman right now. 


hey, re today. I'm going to be on a tight schedule this morning. So 
if you are not at my ofc by 9:40 (assuming^^J can go). I'm just 
going to leave with him and have you meet us over there? 

That's fine. I will hop out of my staff mtg at 930. The plan is we 
take separate cars as you need to stay? 


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Yes please. Are you sure you can hop out then? You have to give 
your "any objections" talk too though. 

I'm going to start at 9 and leave at 935. Should be enough, as 
we've covered everything before. If not, just leave at 940 and I'll 
meet y ou there. 

Okay, might leave at 9:37, if you're not there 


Btw, today supposed to be SPECTACULAR. 

\U0001f636 _ 

I'll try. I'm going to be really busy today. Will explain why later. 

That stinks....ok... 


Work or house/personal stuff? 


Work. 


Boo. That came out of nowhere? 


Yes,^ called me at dinner last night. IPC being convened on the 
SH stuff Friday, I need to prep FOUR ADs for it tomorrow. 


2016-06-29 
11:36:42, Wed 


INBOX 


Jesus. Well, they're getting their money's worth out of you before 
you go...\n\nYou need to decide and talk to Andy about LA. 


2016-06-29 
12:19:10, Wed 


INBOX 


K. Mtg with Moffa and^H right now 


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12:19:26, Wed 

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Np. Need to talk to trisha now anyway 

2016-06-29 

12:19:47, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey have a related work questiob 

2016-06-29 

12:20:08, Wed 

INBOX 

What was the answer on^| material 1) in the case file 2) in the 
Ihm? 

2016-06-29 

16:36:16, Wed 

INBOX 

What time is your conference call tomorrow? 

2016-06-29 

16:38:31, Wed 

OUTBOX 

2:30 

2016-06-29 

16:38:35, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Cleaning up now 

2016-06-29 

16:39:56, Wed 

INBOX 

K. Walking over... 

2016-06-29 

18:46:00, Wed 

INBOX 

God. Bill just asked to block out an hour for our MYE wrap because 
he wants to talk thru things...what more is there to talk 
about?\n\nMay 1 mention D's plan to inform Judiciary, Intel, and 

DNI so he doesn't spin about that? 

2016-06-29 

18:53:15, Wed 

OUTBOX 

But just keep it quiet, obviously. 

2016-06-29 

19:51:42, Wed 

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1 didn't need to. Just got done. Many thoughts. 

2016-06-29 

19:51:58, Wed 

INBOX 

Walking back to office with Moffa 

2016-06-29 

20:11:44, Wed 

INBOX 

Heading up to your office 

2016-06-30 

10:31:19, Thu 

INBOX 

All the airport tarmac articles finally burst out. Took a little bit. Not 
a big deal, just ASTOUNDINGLY bad optic. 

2016-06-30 

10:31:34, Thu 

INBOX 

And doesn't help what the D is trying to do. 

2016-06-30 

10:31:58, Thu 

INBOX 

All at work busy? 

2016-06-30 

10:32:22, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yup. Stupid stupid stupid. And if we had done it, we'd never be 
hearing the end of it. 

2016-06-30 

10:33:08, Thu 

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Yeah, just work. 

2016-06-30 

10:34:16, Thu 

INBOX 

And from EVERYONE. This, one guy over there calls with quasi - 
apology. Silence from everyone else, \n\nl sent DoJ one of the 
articles last night, just because. Maybe an answer to their 
occasional grumbling about our 7th floor. 

2016-06-30 

10:35:32, Thu 

OUTBOX 

What grumbling? Not following. 

2016-06-30 

10:36:45, Thu 

INBOX 

Just when they randomly bitch about what the D wants, or our 
timetable, etc. Just making the point that we're not doing wildly 
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2016-06-30 

12:22:56, Thu 

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Bill apparently called Jon in early this morning with some follow - 
on asks from the convo yesterday. \U0001f612 

2016-06-30 

12:23:02, Thu 

INBOX 

Trying to get details... 

2016-06-30 

12:27:46, Thu 

OUTBOX 

And oh boy. Bill needs to relax. 

2016-06-30 

12:29:16, Thu 

INBOX 

Bill is doing what my agents are doing. Only they settle more easily 
about letting the unnecessary nice-to-haves go.... 

2016-06-30 

12:59:33, Thu 

INBOX 

Omg he is spinning about the tarmac meeting, viewed in 
conjunction with the^^^^^^^J Wants to meet at 4, have us 
bring lists of what we would do in an ordinary circumstance (easy, 
refer to PC) and in this circumstance (easy, refer to 7th floor).... 

2016-06-30 

14:01:23, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Hi. Sorry was in with rybicki. 

2016-06-30 

19:00:35, Thu 

INBOX 

Hi. What time is your Pre Huddle? Now? 

2016-06-30 

21:07:50, Thu 

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Need to talk to you. Not good 

2016-06-30 

21:08:23, Thu 

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On with trisha. Give me three minutes. 

2016-06-30 

22:20:53, Thu 

INBOX 

And of course if ^ leaves let me know and I'll come read up there. 
..though 1 suspect you're cramming together sob you can go 

2016-06-30 

22:21:14, Thu 

OUTBOX 

We just finished. In with andy now. 

2016-06-30 

22:28:38, Thu 

INBOX 

K. Rybicki just sent another version. 

2016-06-30 

22:32:55, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Bill just popped his head in, hopefully to talk to him. 

2016-06-30 

22:34:11, Thu 

INBOX 

Hope so. Just left Bill. Talked about the speech, the^l stuff 
relating to the case, and what i told you about earlier. 

2016-06-30 

22:39:48, Thu 

INBOX 

He changed President to "another senior government official" 

2016-06-30 

22:44:01, Thu 

INBOX 

Also, just emailed JR asking if D might want to call US Atty at some 
point. 

2016-06-30 

23:31:11, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 mentioned us atty to andy, he'll do it. 

2016-06-30 

23:32:02, Thu 

INBOX 

Thank you. It's the right thing to do, particularly given all the 
discussion of "prosecutors." 

2016-06-30 

23:32:34, Thu 

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Won't be pre-stsgment though. 

2016-06-30 

23:33:10, Thu 

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That's fine, just in the near term along with Hill and DNI seems 
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Where'd he come from? And he's going OUT as an asac, right? 

2016-07-01 

02:12:02, Fri 

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He has worked for the dd office for a while. Going to be a sac in AT. 

2016-07-01 
02:12:19, Fri 

INBOX 

Remind me Jons question about whether we should have ever 
opened mye to begin with. A perfect storm of Randy and John 
bluster, with political background... 

2016-07-01 

02:12:55, Fri 

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Derp derpy Derp. 

2016-07-01 

02:13:14, Fri 

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Doing what, for the DD'S office? 

2016-07-01 
02:14:24, Fri 

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Oh boy. Great. 

2016-07-01 
09:34:43, Fri 

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Holy cow... nyt breaking Apuzzo, Lync will accept whatever rec D 
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Lynch. Timing not great, but whatever. Wonder if that's why the no 
coordination language added 

2016-07-01 

11:26:30, Fri 

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No way. This is a purposeful leak following the airplane snafu. 

2016-07-01 
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Timing looks like hell. Will appear choreographed. All major news 
networks literally leading with "AG to accept FBI D’s 
recommendation." 

2016-07-01 

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Yeah, that is awful timing. Nothing we can do about it. \U0001f615 

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What 1 meantvwas, did DOJ tell us yesterday they were doing this, 
so D added that language. 

2016-07-01 
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Yep. 1 told Bill the same thing. Delaying just makes it worse. 

2016-07-01 

11:35:23, Fri 

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And yes. 1 think we had some warning of it. 1 know they sent some 
statement to rybrcki, be he called andy. 

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And yeah, it's a real profile in couragw, since she knows no charges 
will be brought. \U0001f612 

2016-07-01 
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And now the NYT news alert... 

2016-07-01 

11:40:03, Fri 

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It's a shame because now it begins to tarnish even the FBI's good 
name. Very irritating. \n\nAnyway. 







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14:50:13, Fri 

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You hopefully tune in for AG comments at 11 if you haven't left... 

2016-07-01 

15:25:26, Fri 

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But AGs talking now. Said she had decided to accept rec prior to 
meeting with Clinton on Monday 

2016-07-01 

15:25:50, Fri 

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Keeps calling it "investigation of State Department emails." Uh, not 
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And dang it, I'm hoping to catch Rybicki to throw out the Q. of 
watching, caveated with the acknowledgment of complete 
undertaking of the million reasons the answer may be "no," alas, 

[without success. _ 

Did you end up telling Andy about what I told you about the 
j stuff, or did Bill broach it? 


\UQ001f6121. _ 

All his DADs and SCs sat there staring at their hands. ...someone 
asked him why the change, he said that was for him to know.... 


Bill talked to him about it last night, i talked, to andy about it today 
again. He is going to broach it with DAG extra week, but he wants 
CD and CyD to have a plan for review. 


Any intrigue on the MYE front? \n\nAnd damn it's going to be 

miserable to have you away for a 

week.\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 


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Oof. Hi. Sounds like a comparatively reduced - stress day, though. 
\u263a\n\nJust talked to Andy for an hour. Have MANY details for 
you. Have to write something with Jon and low, let me know 

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Yes, he mentioned you were meeting. Let me know when you are 
free to talk. 

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Did you guys ever write the disclaimer on the Ihm? 

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Damn. Just saw your article. 

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Writing that now. And yes, damn re article. Says the FBI declined 
comment. Great job, NPO. 

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What were they supposed to say? 

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Nothing! But they were supposed to give us a heads up instead of 
the dead silence we got!!!! 

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This is *slightly* notable news 

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talked with both Laufman and explained the reason why 

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1 have no idea. The best they could articulate is something that 
might imply or be miscontrued as statung we didn't find people 
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Also, 1 think 1 mentioned (but not sure) im not going to brief the 
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Will be in 

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office until about 7:45, then yes, sioc. 


Look forward to hearing 


how today goes. 


!Ok. Hang in there 


.an't wait to tell you about it 



^Anyway, enjoy your morning. Just got Starbucks, 
already dealing with issues (all admin, as in, her five attorneys all 
wanting to drive into J EH separately because of fear of media 
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Ok headed to sioc. Wish us luck. Hope your morning 

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Hey it all went well 

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Talking paper with DoJ now. I'll hit you on gmail when 
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Actually, can you talk for 30 secs, work-related? 

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And she just gave a phone interview to CNN 

2016-07-02 

21:49:22, Sat 

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What did she say? 

2016-07-02 

21:58:53, Sat 

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Just she never sent or received anything marked as classified, that 
she didn't want to comment on the interview out of respect for the 
investigation, that she was glad to have been able to help resolve 
the matter. 

2016-07-02 

23:03:18, Sat 

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Yeah. If we want the draft done for the D tomorrow, post-edit.... 

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• 

Also, talked to He said the two details never talk to each 

other. 

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23:56:24, Sat 

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And hey, remind me brief call with andy. He agrees finding out 
those answers probably doesn't change anything, but 1 still think 
that he expects you guys to do so, even post-tuesday. Anyway, 
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And how do we do investigation after D announces we've 
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Because the D says he's not going to say complete, just nearly 
complete or something like that. 

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Ok. We can go there. Any other due 

outs? 1 suppose I should just wait to talk to you. 

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No, just that they both thought it would be important to get the 
answer to the questions about her security indoctrination, ongoing 
training, etc. 

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And 1 imagine you can probably just do it by phone. 

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True. Of course 1 want to hear what they said when they decided 
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He didn't talk to me about that. 

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Oh. Well, darn. Anything else? 

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Rybicki coming in with D tomorrow... 

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No, not that 1 can think of. 

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Man, 1 so want to be there. You going in? 

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No. They most certainly would not invite me up/in. 

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What are they doing? Rehearsing? 

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That's my guess. 

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Is Andy going in tomorrow? And have you asked to see the all 
employee email? 

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1 don't know if he is. Good question. I'll ask tomorrow or Monday. 
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Waiting for to get back from a run, Kendall apparently 

called him last night. 

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\n\nl sent you the redacted secret 302 last night 
along with everyone else. Might as well, plus, gives you a reason if 

want to fle e tn eras... _1_ 

Did you read the nyt write up this morning? \n\nThe interview had 
been weeks in the making as law enforcement officials and Mrs. 
Clinton\u2019s team coordinated schedules. Democrats also 
hoped that holding the interview on a holiday weekend might ease 
the anticipated storm.\n\nln a telephone interview with Chuck 
Todd on MSNBC after her meeting, Mrs. Clinton said, 
\u201cl\u2D19ve been eager to do it, and I was pleased to have 
the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a 
conclusion.\u201d\n\nAccompanying Mrs. Clinton into the 
I meeting were her lawyer David E. Kendall; Cheryl D. Miils and 
!Heather 5amueIson, longtime aides who are also lawyers; and two 
lawyers from Mr. Kendall\u2019s firm, Williams & Connolly, 
Katherine Turner and Amy Saharia.\n\nEight officials from the 
1F.B.I. and the Department of Justice conducted the interview, 
‘according to a person who was familiar with the substance of the 
session but declined to be named because the meeting was 
private. This person characterized the meeting as 
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Eight, because Peking DoJ is ridiculous. What I didn't say in the 
conference call is that and comments were largely 

unnecessary... _ 

Mrs. Clinton had no public events scheduled on Saturday, but after 
her F.B.I. interview she and her husband, former President Bill 
Clinton, went to New York and saw the Broadway show 

\u20 1cH amilton.\u20 1d_ 

8. It's really pathetic. 

Yep. Exactly what I thought, 

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I know. Whatever.lt's fine. We'll have the last laugh. 

Just talked to I'm writing a unet Email now, I will include 

you. H e alr eady told Toscas _ 

F*ck Pck Pck 


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Why the cursing above? 1 read the email, didn't find it that 
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A) I'm sorry. 1 figured it would be :(\nB) high side email. JB noted 
something that had a carry-over paragraph on the next page. First 
part was redacted, second wasn't. It's all marked s, question is 
whether it should be higher. 1 don't think it is (and hey, had a 
person who was one of the highest ranking OCAs in the govt at the 
time tel! me yesterday she thought it was U \U0001f612), but just 
embarrassing. Then, in my "hey heads up don't forward 
attachment and treat this as higher until we get this sorted out, i 
cited the wrong page. \U0001f621 Because that also has 
something which is arguable. Why 1 hate sending drafts around. 

\i mnnirmi_:_ .. . .. „ 

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15:27:08, Sun 

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1 know we don't have have a choice given timing. 

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It's okay. Everyone understands what a crunch you're under. 

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1 DO want to talk to you a bout con vo with 

Andv and the email 1 sent this morning. 

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19:48:13, Sun 

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1 need to call Bill back though. 

2016-07-03 

20:17:16, Sun 

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Talked things thru with Bill. I'm glad 1 can be a voice of calm, a 
security blanket. 

2016-07-03 
20:28:36, Sun 

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What's bill freaking out about now? 

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20:30:05, Sun 

INBOX 

Interview, W&C comments, his convo with Andy (sounds similar to 
yours), what more we could do, if we're on the right path, 
managing uncertainty and fear and doubt. 

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20:33:12, Sun 

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I'm glad he has you too. 

2016-07-03 

21:12:45, Sun 

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Re-reading, for like the billionth time, his statement. And fact 
checking again.... 

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23:10:34, Sun 

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you shouldn't be worrying about Tuesday, that isn't what 
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\n\nNo determination from State yet about whether 
they were classified at the time. \n\nBased on above, 1 think it 
reasonable to say we believe emails with portions 

marked (C) in the bodies are classified (C) now and by extension 
(current classification and contemporaneous marking) were 
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Hey note that Jon and are cc:ed on the email I just sent you 


Talk? I am almost certain Bill will call and forward to and/or discuss 

with Andy. _ 

Just talked to Bill...he's going to think about whether or not to pass 
on. Has some concern that this is late, and whether it's worth 
changing given all the practice that like happened yesterday. I told 
him he could always bounce off of Andy or JR to get their thoughts. 



But HUGE day. 


Which I get to share with you 

!tod while it was open, I 

didn't take "Andy's" spot... _ 

Done! I think literally less than two minutes 

Unbelievable. 

What? I TOLD them...\U0001f609~ ’ 

Sorry, just wanted to know what was going on. Andy just calling 

George. Standby. _ . _ 

Bummer. Didn't know Andy was going to be down there too.:{ 

Turn on CNN. State news conference 

I know. Dude is getting BEAT UP. 

God I still want to watch all this with you!!!! \U0001f636 

I'm waiting for andy to show back up! The d is back, no due where 

he is?! _ 

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Hmm. Me either. 1 assume they were together. 1 saw the D, and he 
was with people, 1 assumed JR and Andy. But 1 didn't get a positive 
ID on the other two 

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18:34:35, Tue 

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You find him? 

2016-07-05 

18:36:18, Tue 

INBOX 

You still listening? Poor guy...we're going to need to address with 
State 

2016-07-05 

18:46:07, Tue 

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Hey there's a uc meeting in my office in 15.1 may go to.your office 
or bubble to hang out. Any sense of schedule later? 

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19:05:23, Tue 

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Oops, just walked in on your unit meeting but you weren't there! 
Headed to my ofc now 

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K with Bill stop by if you wNt 

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Want 

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In bills ofc? 1 just got back to my ofc 

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Ooh. Just heard something from Bill that's going to make you 

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lf621\U0001f621 let me go by bubble and will call you 

2016-07-06 

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Also, Fox reporting D is testifying tomorrow...Bill was not at the 
prep session this morning. Not sure what's happening, but 
coordination does not appear to be ideal. 

2016-07-06 
17:34:03, Wed 

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On the phone with 

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Rgr. Call when you are done. 

2016-07-06 

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Hi. Watching D with 

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No, would take too long. He did really well. 

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Will tell you all about it, of course 

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19:13:52, Wed 

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Ooh, 1 want to know now! 

2016-07-06 

19:15:52, Wed 

INBOX 

Listening to Andy then have to call this person in USD(i) then mtg 
outside of Andy's at 3:45 

2016-07-06 

19:55:33, Wed 

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Heading into mtg with AG.... 

2016-07-06 

19:56:25, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Can't wait to hear about it. Ask Jim about the BB holes in the wall 

from rfk's kids. 

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1 didn't ask. 

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Pretty cool, she just accepted the unanimous recommendation. 
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Remind me. Bill talked to Andy about me and the DAD job 
Are you going to watch his testimony at 10? Do you have cspan? 
I'm going to try. so we'll see. 


I will when we get back. 


Thought this was spot on.\n\nHil!ary Clinton: Ma\u2019am 
Survivor http://nyti.ms/29z00ku 


Also think I need to ask for their gross negligence analysis - 

he made a point of telling me last night that Rybicki had asked for 
it (which is smart, there was a lot of discussion about it yesterday 
which was helpful for the D> -1 think I'm going to be doing more 
education than I anticipated 


Sent that nyt article 

I'm so sorry \n\nUnrelated, you're going to need to tell me to be a 
little bit less of a control freak about the case. It’s out, there are a 
hundred people doing things, and I'm not going to be able (or 

need) to mana ge all of it and ensure its right.... _:_ 

Actually the case is over. So it's not yours to control 
a nym ore._ 


Yes. I need you to say things like that, \u263a 
You have time for a quick work call? 


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That's exactly right. 

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God he is SO GOOD 

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1 know. Brilliant public speaker. 

2016-07-07 

14:24:23, Thu 

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And brilliant distillation of fact. 

2016-07-07 

14:27:13, Thu 

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Yep. Chaffetz is in over his head 

2016-07-07 
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1 was just about to say the same thing. 

2016-07-07 
14:28:50, Thu 

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And chaffetz is trying to be so measured. But it's so phony. 

2016-07-07 
17:29:16, Thu 

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"Celebrity hunting" was Margolis 1 phrase yesterday. 

2016-07-07 

17:55:02, Thu 

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He just walked it back 

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We need to get him a better answer re the lawyers.point being, 
they had no clue classified was on there until the info was 
produced to state and they started protecting it via foia 

2016-07-07 

18:36:09, Thu 

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Exactly. And mills and Kendall had ts clearances during sort 

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18:36:28, Thu 

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Still checking on Samuelson 

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1 called andy, but in ses board. Has team been watching? 

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Some, yes 

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18:38:54, Thu 

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1 have lots of input but seems intentional decision by 7th floor to 
not watch live (or prep yesterday). Assume there are good reasons 
for it. Whatever. \n\nD fixed Petraeus statement 

called me to give me a heads up Andy had called 
him about where he was getting the attic story from. Have that 
storv. too. 

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"Reporch"? 

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Yeah, 1 heard re petraeus. 

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Also the non paper answer wasn’t correct. Let me know if you free 
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! did get a chuckle out of D's gotta pee joke... 

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Sorry for delay. Bill stopped in to tell me about convo he had with 
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About me 

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Oh yeah! About dad? Talk now? 

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OPA is f*eking up 

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Yeah, saw your email. Andy is in an see board, there needs to be 
centralized decision making on this. Call rybicki direct? 

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NP. Had a gut instinct which just confirmed. 

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What's that? 

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Check your email. ielding all kinds of calls about 

misstatements or clarification to D's testimony and as best i can 
tell, asking me and for answers so she 

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BBC News: US State Department restarts Hillary Clinton email 
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Funny. That was our agreement, but of the BILLION things they've 
told us recently, this wasn't one of them. \n\nBtw, this place goes 
to shit without you here. Last 24 hours were sideways disaster, 
finally stepped in at mv urging 

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And hi. Finally left, with 200 pages of transcript to read tonight. 

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Oh! You know what J told me? Andy apologized to 

following the AG brief!!!!!!deserves no such thing, 


let alone from the DD. \n\nl get/hope he was trying to help out me 
and others at the working kevel, which I really appreciate, but still. 


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volume is like 14/hour. After his speech, it went over 700.... 

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It’s not good. 

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And probably not charitable, but looking back, I’m a *little* 
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1 know. But that's not his fault. 

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Going to review and rpHline D testimony at 1030. Who should get 
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Get what, the redimes? Yeah, sounds right. Why Just be of 

Steinbach's involvement going forward? 

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Yes re Should I not, at least on this? He wasn't involved in 

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Plus he may be voting on the DAD job soon... 

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His transcript is even more impressive than hearing it spoken. 
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Heading up to SIOC. You may be home when I'm done! 



Emersencv meeting, huh? This ouehta be eood. Just finished lunch. 


Not good. He threw DOJ a lifeline and politicized his position. 
That's the general consensus from everyone I've spoken to. One 
current SAC was shocked and dismayed. I'm sure you're swamped 
but let's ca tch up next week. _ 


iGod that really offends me. 


iRead it in the context of the Wittes piece I just emailed. 


Of course re JB's email please make sure someone invites us to any 
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Maybe email Jim back individually and ask him.his thoughts about 
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1 guess. Bill is outnall next week, so that doesnt help. 1 may grab 
and Jon (don't think 1 can exclude him) and just stand in the 
hallway. When do thev normally finish? 

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And just talked to my State DS counterpart about their parh ahead, 
so have that nugget 1 can offer to the convo... 

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Hrc just on pbs news hour 

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And meanwhile, we have Black Lives Matter protesters, right now, 
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Also, comfort dog stopped by unannounced today, because the 
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Got it. Thanks. 

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and the other woman's name is...? 

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vas bugging the hell out of me, apparently Kortan was doing 
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1 should let go...everyone made it through and nothing TOO 
terrible happened... 

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Maybe. But if you follow Andy out the door in two years, this is 
truly de minimus. 

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I’m going to fight like hell to keep you in. Just saying 

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Oh. And JB gave me another big arm around the shoulder hug after 
meeting the AG on Wed. 

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He's proud of you. 1 think it's really cute. 

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1 didn’t get the chance to ask about the BBs. But 1 did sit and stare 
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It's next to the portrait of Eric Holder, which is wildly offensive. 

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Worried about work, 1 think. How much we decide to release, the 
prospect of second guessing. The IG doing that bugs me; Congress 



doing so infuriates me. 

2016-07-11 

12:01:33, Mon 

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Hey just remembered won't be in this morning 

2016-07-11 

12:21:36, Mon 

INBOX 

Oh well then. Saw our 3-4. If anything before then, 1 guess they can 
find me and Jon if needed 

2016-07-11 

12:23:08, Mon 

INBOX 

Just brought up to speed. How's traffic? 

2016-07-11 

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He was in? 1 didn't expect him to be. 

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2016-07-11 INBOX Sorry Moffa, not 

12:29:22, Mo n_ 

2016-07-11 INBOX Oh god. It looked like hell. \n\nTalkig to Bill again. 

21:49:09, Mon ___ 

2016-07-11 | INBOX And interested in any feedback from DIA call if you get any.... 

21:49:42, Mon _ 

2016-07-11 INBOX You read the referral yet? 

22:30:01, Mon _ 

2016-07-11 INBOX We really want to drop the LHM and 302s into that environment? 

22:30:48, Mon_ 

2016-07-11 ; OUTBOX . Yes. More of the same. Actually, it's pretty insulting given that the 

22:31:04, Mon I _ Director almost 5 hours up there on Thursday. _ 

2016-07-11 lOUTBOX I know. I’m going to talk to Andy about it. I'm deeply nervous about 

22:31:37, Mon _ it too. _._ 

2016-07-11 INBOX Bill wanted to know if he should call him, send some articles. 

22:32:22, Mon _ 

2016-07-11 OUTBOX Call whom? Andy? 

22:3 2:39, Mon _ 

2016-07-11 INBOX Yes, Andy. I sent him the Wittes article, and I think he saw the 

22:35:36, Mon Miller one calling it an abuse of power, \n\nl just have no faith in 

Congress to respect our investigative information. The LHM and no 
more. Not even senior people's 302, unless what we'd release via 
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\n\nJust read the 

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Congressional letter to the D. Also CNN poll. Has me stressed out. 

2016-07-12 
00:25:59, Tue 1 

INBOX 

Hi. Fallowing up prep, 1 just reread the Deutch IG report. 1 see no 
reference to written classified material. 1 will re-read again, and if 
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1 don't want to talk about work though - this all stresses me out 
too. 

2016-07-12 

10:43:42, Tue 

INBOX 

Was glad to see email last night. Had a brief exchange 

with Moffa before then about our control tendencies / issues. 1 
think my underlying worry, outside of the simple unease with 
Congress, is the necessary presence of OCA and OPA (who are both 
new to the case} and the heightened role for OGC. Increases the 
chance for things to go wrong.... 

2016-07-12 

10:43:49, Tue 

INBOX 

And yes, it stinks. 

2016-07-12 

21:47:10, Tue 

INBOX 

Are you fucking kidding me? This is objectively a great idea and an 
easy.- de minimus - lift. \n\nWe suck SO bad sometimes. 

2016-07-12 

21:47:41, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 know. I'm very frustrated. 

2016-07-12 
21:48:11, Tue 

INBOX 

They'll probably come up with some worthless rotation schedule 
where she spends a half day with each program. \U0001f612 

2016-07-12 

21:49:06, Tue 

INBOX 

You want me to cAII her later this week, say she's awesome, we're 
trying to recruit her to Cl and this request is legit? 

2016-07-12 

21:49:11, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I know. 1 did everything 1 could to bolster what and 1 had 

already talked about, but she thought people might be 
"concerned" and wanted to talk to folks. 

2016-07-12 

21:49:30, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Nope. may just end up doing a detail to cd-4. \U0001f612 

2016-07-12 

21:49:55, Tue 

INBOX 

Why would they be concerned? That's stupid 

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21:50:21, Tue 

INBOX 

Fine. And she can spend a day at wfo as a CD4 detailer. \U0001f606 

2016-07-12 

21:53:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 have no idea. And 1 tried to get her to articulate who, and she 
wouldn't. 


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They're idiots. And they mistrust nslb. 

2016-07-12 

22:04:57, Tue 

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God forbid they do something to build bridges 

2016-07-12 

22:05:59, Tue 

INBOX 

How long is this tdy supposed to be, anyway? 


2016-07-12 OUTBOX 2 or 3 days. 

22:17 :54, Tue___ 

2016-07-12 INBOX Truly. F it. Put her on detail to 4 and I'll send her to Boston or SF 

22:19:40, Tu e _ with n o problems. _ 

2016-07-12 OUTBOX just sent an email which helps explain it some. 

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2016-07-12 INBOX Talked with He was not aware of anything happening with 

22:43:13, Tue _ new referral other than DC calling odag. _ 

2016-07-12 | OUTBOX Does he know who in ODAG? That would”be useful to know. Can 

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said he didnt know, that it was all second or third hand 
info, and that Toscas would know.\n\nl can call DC but that's 
stepping on WF's toes. _ 


Nope. No need. 



Though Andy moved MYE 


Yeah, I know re mye. I need to move it. 


Hey was thinking, let me ask Baker what the meeting with Fine was 
about. It might be better not to get Jim deep in the facts of this yet 
since he sometimes takes overly cautious/conservative positions. 
That work?_ 


2016-07-13 
18:53:08, Wed 


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Disagreement about the 302s. General consensus of our group.is 
ALL SESers are to be produced, plus notable private people. 


2016-07-13 

18:55:29, Wed 

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Ah. Yes, that sounds right. 

2016-07-13 

19:07:47, Wed 

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1 missed Andy. Will try again after sac svtc. 

2016-07-13 
19:37:07, Wed 

INBOX 

Damn I missed the svtc. Several things for you, will call when 
people leave. \n\nAnd hi. 

2016-07-13 

19:38:16, Wed 

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I'm waiting in Andy's ofc. 

2016-07-13 
19:45:05, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey its going to take too long to type, along with DOJs reasoning 
why they want the changes. You have it on the secret side. 

2016-07-13 
19:48:06, Wed 

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Okay, will do. It's not like it needs to be decided today. 

2016-07-13 

21:43:12, Wed 

INBOX 

So of course I'm going to ask you to review my DAD application. 
Deadline is 7/21 

2016-07-13 

21:48:20, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Of course. It would be my pleasure. 

2016-07-13 
22:51:26, Wed 

INBOX 

Sorry was talking with Jason and 1 like them both. Gave Jason 

the Ihm and outlined everything. 

2016-07-13 
23:08:02, Wed 

INBOX 

Thank you very much re my application. \U0001f636\n\nl think 1 
drop the Boston illegals example and add Clinton 

2016-07-13 

23:55:55, Wed 

INBOX 

Btw, didn’t get a chance to follow up after this morning. 1) how do 
you think it went? Andy seemed a little p*ssed/short on time. His 
"let Stephen finish" to me worried me a bit except he d id it to J B 
and a bunch of other people, too.\n2) in the wildly unlikely event 1 
have to testify (and tell me I'm right about that -1 think it's unlikely 
and even less likely I'd go outside of a group). I'm leaning on you to 
prep the hell out of me. 

2016-07-14 
01:33:53, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Have you read this? It’s really frightening. \n\nFor Whites Sensing 
Decline, Donald Trump Unleashes Words of Resistance 
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I have not. But I think it's clear he's capturing all the white, poor 
voters who the mainstream Republicans abandoned in all but 
name in the quest for the almighty_$_$_$_$_ 



tomorrow's logistical plans explode, I'm around to hel 
Poll Finds Emails Weighing on Hillary Clinton, Now Tied With 
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I'm sorry. That really sucks. 


You going to this ogc meeting this afternoon? 


Yes. It's mandatory. 


Hi. With Moffa. If you think you want to try and hit the farewell 
, hit me here„. 


ii&usy 



We're done talking. Back to texting. I'm going to the house to 
shower and pack my suitcase. 


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Hey turns out I only have 3 of your interview appendix 


You done yet? 


Yep. 

About 15;ago, had to talk to my guys 


I know. It's crazy, since the military represents secularism in 
Turkey. 


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And hi. Just got done with Bill 


How's he doing? 

Fine. I think pleasantly surprised that last week was comparatively 
calm. Went thru the due-outs for this week, \n\nl stayed 
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00:12:19, Tue 

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And are you kidding me? Duck Dynasty now Scott Baio? Ridiculous. 

2016-07-19 

00:26:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

What are you talking about? 

2016-07-19 

00:27:05, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Wait, is that who is speaking at the convention?! 

2016-07-19 

00:27:27, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Charles in Charge?! That's the best they can do?! Lmfao 

2016-07-19 

00:27:37, Tue 

INBOX 

It's PATHETIC! 

2016-07-19 

00:27:59, Tue 

OUTBOX 

That unbelievable. My god. Thank god it's not on. 

2016-07-19 

00:28:44, Tue 

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It's on! PBS! 

2016-07-19 

00:29:07, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, no thanks. 

2016-07-19 

00:29:56, Tue 

INBOX 

What did you do? Republican snark. \U0001f636 

2016-07-19 

INBOX 

AND COME ON!!!! TURN ON THE CONVENTION!!!! 


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00:37:04, Tue 

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Pbs/npr joint broadcast sucking so far\U0001f615 

2016-07-19 

00:37:52, Tue 

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NO! 1 WILL NOT BE SUCKED IN! 

2016-07-19 

00:43:55, Tue 

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TURN IT PBS. 

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ir, . • 

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Oooh, TURN IT ON, TURN IT ON!!! THE DOUCHEBAGS ARE ABOUT 

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TO COME OUT. \n\nYou can tell by the excitable clapping. 

2016-07-19 

INBOX 

Aaaaand Mara Liaison is destroying whatever pedestrian respect 1 

00:59:52, Tue 


had left... 

2016-07-19 

01:02:24, Tue 

INBOX 

OOOHHHHH. Now, Antonio Sabato, Jr 

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My god, I'm so embarrassed for them. These are like second-run 

01:04:46, Tue 


stars. Nothing the B-!ist to relate to the kids these days... 

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And oh, Bob Dole!\n\nTHIS IS PATHETIC!!!! 

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And wow, Donald Trump is an enormous d*uche. 

2016-07-19 

INBOX 

Hi. How was Trump, other than a douche? Melania? 

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10:18:31, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Trump barely spoke, but the first thing out of his mouth was "we're 
going to win soooo big." The whole thing is like living in a bad 
dream. 

2016-07-19 

10:19:41, Tue 

INBOX 

Jesus 

2016-07-19 

10:20:06, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Melania was perfectly fine, except the whole point of the spouse 
talking is to reveal those peesonal stories, what a kind human the 
candidate is. There was none of that. 

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10:20:38, Tue 

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2016-07-19 

10:21:20, Tue 

INBOX 

That was her job! What the hell did she talk about? Winning 
yuuuge? 

2016-07-19 

11:18:46, Tue 

INBOX 

Omg. You listening to npr? Apparently Melania's speech had 
passages lifted from Michele Obama's....unbelievable 

2016-07-19 
11:19:25, tue 

OUTBOX 

NOWAY! 

2016-07-19 

11:20:06, Tue 

OUTBOX 

! God, it's just a two-bit organization. 1 do so hope his 
disorganization comes to bite him hard in November. 

2016-07-19 

11:21:13, Tue 

INBOX 

It HAS to, right? Right?!? Panicked \U0001f628 

2016-07-19 

17:07:01, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Just ran into It was like we were old pals... 

2016-07-19 

18:17:34, Tue 

INBOX 

Of course! He's not a bad person... 

2016-07-19 

18:34:51, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He's just not very good. • 


2016-07-19 

18:40:41, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Will you bring a ream of paper? 

2016-07-19 

19:27:03, Tue 

INBOX 

Talked to Bill. Thanks for the 26 minute embargo. ;)\n\nLet me 
know when you're back, I'll bring paper 

2016-07-19 

21:32:38, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey 

\U0001f612 

says Toscas may call Andy about the LHM preamble. 


2016-07-19 

21:32:39, Tue 

INBOX 

You staying for wrap? 

2016-07-19 

21:33:12, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, he mentioned it to me at the meeting, need to tell andy. 

2016-07-19 

21:37:09, Tue 

INBOX 

Who mentioned what? 

2016-07-19 

21:37:12, Tue 

INBOX 

Please don’t undermine my credibility yet again...when the word is 
"this is it, no more changes," and I write, this is final, only it's not, 
Pete's word really isn’t what it appears to be, I'll just call 
Andy...\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 


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I'm not suggesting YOU ever would. You know what I'm saying (1 
hope) 

2016-07-19 

21:40:08, Tue 

INBOX 

"He" is George? Was he at the neeting? 

2016-07-19 

21:54:35, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm really truly sorry. \U0001f614 

2016-07-19 
22:21:33, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey do you anticipate Andy will want to meet tomorrow on 
Congressional response? Various OGCers asking about deadline...m 

2016-07-19 

22:22:44, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No. Jim said he needed letter pushed to Thursday, andy said that 
was fine. Not sure about mtg tomorrow. 

2016-07-19 

22:22:58, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You guys ready with thoughts re referral? 

2016-07-19 

22:24:41, Tue 

INBOX 

1 still haven't seen referral. Lync'd about it earlier. \n\nAnd no. 

WF went through it and had comments, but i want to read it 
myself. Going to read tonight. 

2016-07-19 
22:26:15, Tue 

OUTBOX 

So why are you clamoring for a meeting if you're not ready to talk 
about your thoughts re the referral? That's one of the things on the 
list, right? 

2016-07-19 

22:26:43, Tue 

OUTBOX 

It's one of the emails that got forwarded from Kelly last week, 1 
think. 

2016-07-19 

22:27:03, Tue 

INBOX 

Phew. I'm really glad. Was feeling just awful. \n\nl‘m NOT 
clamoring for a meeting. Everyone is asking if we can have more . 

time. 

2016-07-19 
22:27:18, Tue. 

INBOX 

Plus, DOJ wants to sit down and do a walk thru of everything for 

2016-07-19 
22:28:28, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Bottom line is there is not a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, and 
unless people want one, 1 wasn't planning on pushing for one. 

2016-07-19 

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Perfect 

2016-07-19 

22:57:54, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh and,re above, 1 meant in haven't seen the draft response. I have 
the referral. 1 haven't seen OGC’S draft response. 

2016-07-19 

23:12:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Oh, got it. 

2016-07-20 

00:14:02, Wed 

INBOX 

Hopefully you get home in time for crazy - ass grain storage 
pyramid Ben Carson tonight. 

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00:14:10, Wed 

Pence being introduced 

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Blech eating late. 


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I 

Omg you need to read the top four most popular on nyt right now. 
Kinda makes you feel like this is all a bad dream?... 

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Hell, look at the top 6.1 think the downfall of Rome wad like this... 

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My god, the crowd looks soooooooo bored. 

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Ha! No, that's Joseph Lieberman! 

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Amd Paul Ryan's a jerky 

2016-07-20 
11:17:14, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey quick request, before you mention and Kelley to Andy, 

let me talk to Moffa. While she's on the team, it's his person, and 1 
should engage with him before raising it up the chain. 

2016-07-20 

17:15:39, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Please. We spent the bulk of the time strategizing how to get you 
into that DAD job. 

2016-07-20 

17:51:08, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Hey you talk to anyone re Chicago? 

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INBOX 

l&MEJiJiust emailed asking when 1 was promoted. They're trying to 
shield me from a Fri FOIA release. He suggested 1 tighten my social 
media privacy in case they can't. \UQ001f612 

2016-07-21 
08:52:19, Thu 

OUTBOX 

This is really shocking.\n\nDona!d Trump Sets Conditions for 
Defending NATO Allies Against Attack http://nyti.ms/2ai4u3g 

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OUTBOX 

This campaign is like watching a train wreck happen over and over 
and over again.\n\nHow Donald Trump Picked His Running Mate 
http://nyti.ms/2a8aG9 

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09:40:02; Thu 

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Trump is a disaster. 1 have no idea how destabilizing his Presidency 
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And Lisa. Despite my sincerest hopes, you maintain you're leaving 
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Maybe. Had a sudden turn to thinking maybe I'll just quit. 

\n\nCrank crank crank. \n\nNo reason \U0001f615 

2016-07-22 

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Okay, that was a quick turn. 

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1 don’t understand the almost derision you had earlier when you 
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And your comment isn't it. Just took a sudden turn to the worse. 

2016-07-22 

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This evening, on the phone. 1 was by the House 

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00:58:26, Fri 

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No derision, just don’t complain that the fbi doesn't cede ex agents 
on the hill when you wouldn't do it either. Everyone's out to make 
money. 

2016-07-22 

02:11:17, Fri 

INBOX 

Im telling you, its ugly. Grumping about career progression and the 
difference in paths based on work topic. Simple question: should 
be EAD of intel? Have you had any substantive conversation 
with him about any Intel topic? 

2016-07-22 

02:12:11, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I don’t talk to anyone about intel. But he does appear to get it. 

2016-07-22 

02:12:23, Fri 

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Anyway, that. \nl'm not proud of it. \nlt's not right, theres nothing 
I'm going to do about it, and 1 should shut up and be petulant in 
silence. 

2016-07-22 
02:12:33, Fri 

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I'm not sure 1 agree 

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02:12:49, Fri 

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Okay. Well thanks for telling me. 



Feel like a dick saying anything in light of your night. 



We can talk more about it tomorrow. Mostly, 1 think this is just 
about accepting your choices. 

2016-07-22 
02:14:36, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Is there anyone in the Bureau who doesn't know that CT is the 
most important box to check? You chose not to, for good reason. 

2016-07-22 

02:14:50, Fri 

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That it obviously made me very sad to hear that. 

2016-07-22 

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Whatever. 

2016-07-22 

02:15:29, Fri 

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And if you wanted that career path you could have chosen it. 

2016-07-22 

02:16:05, Fri 

INBOX 

It shouldn't be. What will threaten your kids and Andy's kids and 
my kids isn't the CT threat. <\nd 

someone needs to be smart enough and big enough to realize that 
and re prioritize. \n\nWhatever. 

2016-07-22 

02:17:00, Fri 

OUTBOX 

So write a note to the Director or something. 

2016-07-22 

02:17:10, Fri 

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Yeah, probably. 

2016-07-22 
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Ha. That'll go a LONG way 


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I'm sending to my 830...\U0001f612 

I'm talking to about American exceptionalism right now. 

Pretty strongly in favor. As I said to doesn't mean we're perfect or 
do everything right, but as a system of government, country of 
laws, I think we're pretty damn great. 


But there's a difference between that and exceptionalism. Just look 
at the word. It implies not only that we're great, but that you suck. 
And that we are better and you should change to be like us. It goes 
hand in hand with American arrogancism 


1 know. I get that. I'm using the term loosely, not in the political 

philo soph y way. ___ 

And plus. I'm explaining why America is great' 


\U0001f60a\n\nGoing to have to bail on my offer of ride, just got 
called to Bills 


And waiting outside his office...\U0001f612 
On my way. Have mye Qs. 

K here 


Mtg just moved to 3:45 


K. Maybe after....hour mtg? 




Great, sounds fun. 


Just yelled at 


for 15 minutes if you want to hear about it. 



Oh, one more thing, expressed frustration that Fed 

Programs won't tell him anything ..._ 

K. Will mention if Jim calls. \n\nWhat time so they get home? 


One sec. and Jim Baker called. 

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B) Truly, it's like parenting a child (how he should think about 
punishing /not rewarding bad behavior). They're just bullies and 
we need to Peking grow a pair. 

2016-07-24 

21:14:27, Sun 

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And 1 still need to read Moffa's thing. 

2016-07-24 

21:15:02, Sun 

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You can read Moffa's thing tomorrow...won't take long. 

2016-07-24 

21:16:47, Sun 

INBOX 

Did you bring it home? 

2016-07-24 

21:17:04, Sun 

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Moffa's thing 

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Oh the document? Yes. 

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Boo. Though I've got to read it too. Going the eras route... 

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23:47:30, Sun 

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Though 1 will say it's a little bit of a challenge to read since 1 don't 
know her 302, and there's no commentary about why a particular 
Dassaee was chosen. 

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23:51:38, Sun 

OUTBOX Ah. So there's not necessarily an inconsistency hidden in there. Got 

it. Thanks, that helps. 

2016-07-24 

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INBOX And yeah, without the 302 I'm not sure how much vou can really 

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No. Many - most - are fully consistent. Maybe even all. 

2016-07-24 

23:53:28, Sun 

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Got into a disagreement with my two State friends. Nothing major, 
just making excuses for how they do business. 

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Remind me tomorrow. 

2016-07-24 

23:54:02, Sun 

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Well they have a decades long pattern of it. 

2016-07-25 

00:09:56, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Jesus, did you read this?\n\n!s Donald Trump a Racist? 
http://nyti.ms/2aiqD08 

2016-07-25 

00:31:40, Mon 

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Wildly unrelated, still chief judge of the fisc? 


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has lined up a Cl threat briefing for in advance of 

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her travel to . 1 want to get ci training lined up for the 

whole federal judiciary. I'm worried were sending the wrong folks 
to do the briefing. 

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1 did. We talked about it before and after. 1 need to get together 

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00:35:43, Mon 

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5o get the right folks in then! 

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1 just emailed him and that he 1 and 1 should do it. 

2016-07-25 

00:36:24, Mon 

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2016-07-25 
00:37:18, Mon 

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No, you definitely didn't. 

2016-07-25 

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1 am almost certain 1 did. It may have been in passing in another 

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2016-07-25 

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1 think that makes sense. Remind me to tell you frustrating 

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Ok. He won't let some things go.... 

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00:39:13, Mon 

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1 honestly truly don't think you did. I'm serious. 1 would have 
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Well 1 have zero recollection of it. Recent, old, on phone, in person. 

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Was Moffa's thing low side or high side? Can't find it 

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Have to brief this guy from hpsci at 2 


Was talking to andy, then rybicki, then new counsel guy. 


Did Baker decide whether he's participating in call? 

Have not had a chance to ask, but I did check his calendar for today 

and tom orrow and didn't see it . _ 

Hey having a quick mtg with Bill, 


Talking to Bill, want to catch up with you later. \U0001f615 


Leave = jeh, not Andy's office, right? 


now about to read mye letter 

while I listen to Corey booker. He's doing v e ry well. _ 

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letter? I thought Bakers comments w oro "k \n\nir' 
to me how much better this convention is. 


Which one 


Btw, anv more discussion about JB not joining the call with 
tomorrow? 


It's SO much more positive. 


f haven't heard anything more from Jim. 


Sigh. was really upset. 

And so so so much better organized and coordinated than the rnc., 


Really upset that he would join the call? I get it.:( 


Yes. And even more at and what she thought was utterly 

u n prof essional behavior on his part. Which I also get. _ 

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02:30:57, Tue 

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Here’s what I'm about to send everyone in answer to JBs question 

about 

2016-07-26 

02:34:22, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hmm. Should we send that? Maybe just find a quick moment to 
discuss it with him tomorrow? 

2016-07-26 

02:35:29, Tue 

INBOX 

Either way. 1 want him to have the answer. We also have a-c 
privilege and deliberative process slapped all over it, but 1 take 
vour point. 

2016-07-26 

02:36:23, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Let's just try to slip in and see him in the morning. 

2016-07-26 
02:36:27, Tue 

INBOX 

Bottom line: it wasn't key to what we were looking at and it 
certainly was waaaay below the cut line of getting this done with 
the timeliness the D wanted. 

2016-07-26 
02:36:39, Tue 

INBOX 

1 have early. \U0001f612 

2016-07-26 
02:37:10, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Well 1 won't be there before anyway. 

2016-07-26 

02:46:45, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Your boy Bernie better not f this up.;) 


INBOX 

Just sent you background on 

2016-07-26 
03:23:02, Tue 

INBOX 

Jesus Christ how can he talk that long?l?l??l 

2016-07-26 

03:26:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Okay, 1 stopped watching him like 20 minutes ago. 1 just don't care. 
\n\nThis however, was terribly charming. 1 \u2764 her.\n\nFirst 

Lady Michelle Obama Carpool Karaoke - 
YouTube\nhttps://m.voutube.com/watch?v=ln3wAdRAim4 

2016-07-26 
03:54:19, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Well that's a relief! :)\n\nJust watched your video (think 1 had seen 
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2016-07-26 

11:48:26, Tue 

INBOX 

Just was talking with him...want to talk with you about strategies of 
what Bill wants to do with Brief. 

2016-07-26 

15:31:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey do you want an low side or high side? And how do 

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Oh yeah, forgot we wanted to do that. 

2016-07-26 

15:57:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Still in here 

2016-07-26 

16:06:40, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Headed to my ofc now 

2016-07-26 

16:09:27, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Bring your wallet. Jim wants to meet at 430 instead. 

2016-07-26 

18:08:34, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Stay there. Only have 20 minutes before 1 need to see andy again 

2016-07-26 
18:11:39, Tue 

INBOX 

Mainly trying to one Starbucks run...want something later post- 
Andy mtg and pre-4:30 with Baker? 

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We can try. 1 need to finish this letter today though. And 1 need to 
get out right after wrap. 

2016-07-26 

23:54:42, Tue 

INBOX 

And hey. Congrats on a woman nominated for President in a major 
party !\n\nAbout damn time! Many many more returns of the day! 
\U0001f60a 

2016-07-26 

23:56:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

\U0D01f60a That's cute. Thanks. \U0001f636 

2016-07-26 

23:58:20, Tue 

INBOX 

1 had to when Bernie just now moved for her 

nomination. \U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 

2016-07-26 

23:58:48, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm not watching. What happened? 

2016-07-27 
00:02:08, Wed 

INBOX 

They went thru roll call, she got enough votes about an hour ago. 
Vermont went last, they cast their votes. Then introduced Bernie, 
who called for some procedural things then moved for HRC to 
become the Democratic Nominee. 


2016-07-27 INBOX Chills, just because I'ma homer for American democracy that way. 

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2016-07-27 INBOX If they played patriotic music or did something with the flag and an 

00:03:06, Wed honor guard, I probably would have teared up. 


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00:05:18, Wed 

INBOX 

Turn on pbs! 

2016-07-27 

00:07:14, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh God, Holder! Turn it off turn it off turn it off!!!! 


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Sigh. Thank you. \U0001f636 

2016-07-27 
00:11:47, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 saw him yesterday and booed at the tv. \U0001f60a 

2016-07-27 
00:15:56, Wed 

INBOX 

And asked, since she's married to a man, there’s no First 

Lady. What is there? 

2016-07-27 

00:16:57, Wed 

INBOX 

(who's gonna be an utter charismatic hound dog, btw...) 

2016-07-27 
00:21:39, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, it is pretty cool. She just has to win now. I'm not going to lie, 1 
got a flash of nervousness yesterday about trump. The 
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I’m not worried about them. I'm worried about the anarchist 
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00:37:35, Wed 

INBOX 

Did you watch the D's happy birthday fbi message? 

2016-07-27 
00:47:48, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 didn't yet -1 worked my tail off today. 1 heard he made a Clinton 
reference though, no? 

2016-07-27 
00:50:29, Wed 

INBOX 

He did. Any referenced - again - that it wasn't just his decision, that 
it was the teams' 

2016-07-27 
00:52:32, Wed 

INBOX 

More than a reference. Two points: terrorism Miami St Bernadino 
everywhere we're vigilant; second, HRC. Right decision. You may 
disagree but don't you dare think or say it was biased. 

2016-07-27 
00:53:11, Wed 

INBOX 

Thinking of having lunch with Randy and seeking his support at the 
board. What do you think? 

2016-07-27 

00:55:12, Wed 

INBOX 

If he's calling on MY credibility, my character, my career, my 
integrity, to defend his decision, that's gotta be worth something, 
right? 

2016-07-27 

00:58:50, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I think it can't hurt. He's been reaching out, right? 

2016-07-27 
00:59:31, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I would probably just wait to see if he asks what your next steps 
are. I wouldn't bring it up if he doesn't 

2016-07-27 

01:16:08, Wed 

INBOX 

Just saw nyt feed. Jon said D's first Q at brief was about the 
case/two emails? 

2016-07-27 

01:44:45, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Maybe not the first but it came up very soon thereafter. 

2016-07-27 
01:45:08, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 saw it too. so it wasn't us. 

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01:51:37, Wed 

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1 want to hear about it. funny, he doesn't always share about 

stuff like that (and didn't much in this case). \n\nGuess I could ask 
him. 

2016-07-27 

02:10:19, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Dammit, 1 just turned on the convention. I'm tired I But Bill is going 
to suck me in! 

2016-07-27 
02:10:52, Wed 

INBOX 

Of course he is. 

2016-07-27 

02:11:55, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh God, he’s OLD \U0001f62f\U0001f622 

2016-07-27 

02:11:58, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And hey guess what, big surprise. is a big R Arkansas 

Clinton-hater. 

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02:12:28, Wed 

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Yeah. Really old. And missing words. But still charming. 

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1 know. 1 saw that too. 

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He's def using teleprompter 

2016-07-27 

02:20:40, Wed 

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Will he get all 50 states before his speech is thru? 

2016-07-27 

02:50:07, Wed 

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It's fine, but not like Michelle. 

2016-07-27 
02:50:55, Wed 

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He's doing better now. He gets energy from the crowd. 

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02:53:03, Wed 

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Yup, he does. 

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02:54:17, Wed 

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So sad, the comment about more yesterdays than tomorrows. 
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less...\U0001f612 

2016-07-27 

02:57:07, Wed 

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1 like Chelsea fine. Why not? 

2016-07-27 

03:00:18, Wed 

INBOX 

Self entitled. Feels she deserves something she hasn't earned 

2016-07-27 

03:02:01, Wed 

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Why do you think that? 

2016-07-27 

03:02:17, Wed 

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And crap! It's late again! 

2016-07-27 

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INBOX 

God I'm tired. No convention tonight for me... 

2016-07-27 

09:51:49, Wed 

OUTBOX Though Tim Kaine will likely speak. 

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23:58:38, Wed 

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Arghh. Talked to SO frustrating. 

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00:12:25, Thu 

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No it's not. STFU. 

2016-07-28 
00:12:58, Thu 

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Oh god. How different? Trisha and were on the call - can't we 

get confirmation from them? 

2016-07-28 
00:16:21, Thu 

INBOX 

Primary thing was no mention of perhaps doj over promised. I'll ask 
tomorrow. Trisha won't tell (at least me) because it’s 
secretsecretsecret. Sort of like this goddamn Jon and 1 

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1 understand that. description of their behavior was based 

on a different interpretation 1 must have really over promised 

her clients," "glad they got to see first hand how unreasonable she 
is. witness the vellie. etc etc" 

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Oh. Yeah, 1 didn't credit that at ali. 

2016-07-28 

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Ha. First line made me smile. \n\nWhat Does the US Government 
Know About Russia and the DNC Hack? - 
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00:42:34, Thu 

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Interesting. Good comments about Comey, too\n\nTrump and the 
Powers of the American Presidency, Part III - 
Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfa reblog.com/trump-and-powers- 
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00:55:29, Thu 

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Damn. Didn't realize Panetta was on already. 

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00:59:03, Thu 

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Stupid*ss Bernie supporters shouting no more war so that he 
couldn't be heard hardly at all. I'm sorry, they're idiots. 

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They really are. 

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And he was a really important speaker for them. \U0001f621 

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1 know. I’m really angry. 

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1 really really like Joe Biden. 

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Was literally grabbing phone to say Joe's doing great! 

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He's just a really sincere guy. 

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Bob said he was absolutely beloved by Delaware State Police. And 
funny story about him and gtwn basketball team in China a few 
years ago. Too long for here. 

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01:38:44, Thu 

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^U0001f621\n\nTrump & Putin. Yes, 
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This article highlights the thing l mentioned to you earlier, asking if 
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2016-07-28 

02:01:15, Thu 

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I'm not going to be able to hold out until Obama... 

2016-07-28 

10:04:56, Thu 

INBOX 

Hi. I'll be glad when the convention is over...I'm exhausted. Tom 
Kaine's a little weird. \n\nAnd it's a gorgeous sunrise... 

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1 have better connections;) 

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Wonder how he knows him 

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16:00:57, Thu 

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Gotta make sure I time Randy right 

2016-07-28 

16:10:21, Thu 

INBOX 

And this is one of those instances where I'm proud of the people 1 
know and don't know.... 

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16:10:54, Thu 

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You should be. 

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Just finished meeting with Don't care for him. \U0001f612 

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18:28:35, Thu 

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No. Need to go see andy 

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And I'm not surprised. All indications are he's a d*ck. Want to hear 
about it, of course. 

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18:36:58, Thu 

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Of course. Ttyl. 

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22:27:39, Thu 

INBOX 

Just done with Bill you in office 

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22:28:09, Thu 

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I'm going to bills right now. Figured you were there.:( 

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22:28:28, Thu 

INBOX 

He left. 

2016-07-28 
22:28:33, Thu 

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I'll come up 

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22:28:44, Thu 

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For sure he's gone? 

2016-07-29 

10:48:22, Fri 

INBOX 

Watched hillary is all 

2016-07-29 
10:49:24, Fri 

INBOX 

She was ok. B+\n\nChelsea was awful. Tried to do Bills up close 
sharing. Didn't come across as genuine. Plus, she has a HORRIBLE 
billv goat speech tic 

2016-07-29 

16:31:08, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 didn't go. Too busy. Lunching with DD. Locking this up now 

2016-07-29 

17:16:48, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey if you discussed new case with Andy would appreciate any ’ 
input /guidance before we talk to Bill at 3. Let me know I'm happy 
to come up if that's easier. 


2016-07-29 
21:20:25, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Hey, can you ask jon to stick around? 

2016-07-29 

21:20:46, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Going to try to finalize the Ihm tonight 

2016-07-29 

22:17:01, Fri 

INBOX ; 

Oh - and Trisha mentioned to to put 

for seniority until she comes back from al, 


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INBOX 

Oh. News breaking Russians hacked Clinton email. \n\nAlso, you 
talk to Eric? \n\nAnd yeah, re \U0001f612 1 told to tell 

Trisha not to bother, that can cover a week. 

2016-07-29 
22:45:40, Fri 

INBOX 

Ooh just saw on CNN first campaign add showing Gowdy and 
Comey's back and forth with a "should HRC face criminal charges" 
survey via 800 number. 

2016-07-29 

22:48:34, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 agree re 

2016-07-29 

22:49:02, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah Kortan told us DCCC and Hillary Campaign hacked. 

2016-07-29 
22:50:32, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Spoke to eric. No real information, but she clearly wants to come 
back in a year. Over my dead body. Need to talk to rybicki. Spent a 
lot of talking with her. 

2016-07-29 
22:51:58, Fri 

INBOX 

WTF!!I! The new guy, then her, again? !?\n\nShe can be a special 
assistant to the head of the TSC... 

\ U000 lf612\ U000If 612\U000lf612 

2016-07-29 

INBOX 

Fley also note in the email you forwarded from 

22:55:55, Fri 



2016-07-29 

23:14:09, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Thanks. 1 didn't read it closely. Do you want t me to reach out to 

2016-07-29 

INBOX 

1 don't know. What’s the ask 

23:16:43, Fri 



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2016-07-30 

00:26:38, Sat 

INBOX 

It will be great. Lots of light, it will be just fine. \n\nUnrelated, 1 
cannot BELIEVE thinks she can get back in. Talk about cognitive 
dissonance. 

2016-07-30 

00:26:46, Sat 

INBOX 

And what it Rybicki thinking? !??! 

2016-07-30 

00:27:28, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I know. Where? What on earth would she do? 

2016-07-30 
00:27:46,'Sat 

OUTBOX 

I don't think he's entertaining anything. 

2016-07-30 

00:29:36, Sat 

INBOX 

Oh there's always room somewhere, iust look a 1 and 

and and and. Could replace|^^^^^^I^^HH(i\nOh. 1 


thought he was the one who she had pitched. At length. 


2016-07-30 

00:30:00, Sat 

INBOX 

1 GUARANTEE Randy would take her, though he'll be gone 

2016-07-30 

OUTBOX 

1 do think she was talking to him about it. But really, he would 

00:30:52, Sat 


never. If he did, he'd be an utter lying hypocrite. 

2016 07-30 

00:31:34, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 do think it's funny that she's not trying to get back to doj. Or 
maybe she is. Who knows. 

2016-07-30 
00:32:11, Sat 

INBOX 

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00:32:33, Sat 


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OUTBOX 

11:46:12, Sat 


2016-07-30 

OUTBOX 


Yes. That's my guess too. 


Hey, do you want me to respond to 


He emailed. 


11:47:19, Sat 



2016-07-30 
11:47:45, Sat 

INBOX 

1 didn't get a email notification. Let me go check 

2016-07-30 
11:48:40, Sat 

INBOX 

Stupid phones. 

2016-07-30 
11:49:41, Sat 

INBOX 

I'll respond. Answer is we're telling verbally via OGC channels of 
our intent to do so and following with written notice along with list 
of what we're providing? 

2016-07-30 
11:51:08, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes, but we're not doing either until we meet with DOJ again and 
have come to final agreement about what we're turning over. 

2016-07-30 

11:51:26, Sat 

INBOX 

Right 

2016-07-30 

12:35:37, Sat 

INBOX 

Just got this from Jon. Couldn't agree more:\nl've mentally moved 
on to the next big thing. All this back and forth w/ DOJ on docs 
seems needlessly petty and irrelevant at this point. Not to them 1 

guess... 

2016-07-30 

12:45:59, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Totally right there with you. Was thinking before bed last night that 
it is going to be hard to ramp up for testimony on MYE in the fall be 
none of us are going to care at all anymore. 

2016-07-30 

12:50:52, Sat 

INBOX 

Do you know if Andy got concurrence back from George about the 
preamble? No need to ask Andy right now, I think we can in very 
good faith date the LHM July, 2016. 

2016-07-30 

13:07:00, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No, 1 haven't heard back. 

2016-07-30 

13:08:45, Sat 

INBOX 

Np problem, it can absolutely wait, it's funny, 1 didn't see how last 
night's made any real difference, but of it makes DoJ happier, 
great. 

2016-07-30 

13:25:01, Sat 

INBOX 

Note addition of Jon and to last email 

2016-07-30 
13:30:50, Sat 

OUTBOX 

You saw this, right? It was incredibly moving.\n\nln Tribute to Son, 
Khizr Khan Offered Citizenship Lesson at Convention 
http://nyti.ms/2azktsN 

2016-07-30 

13:32:53, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Oh, you should go watch it. it was quite powerful. Read the article 
too. 

2016-07-30 

INBOX 

Hi. I'm partial to any woman sending 

15:32:20, Sat 


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15:35:52, Sat 

OUTBOX 

hate them. 1 think they're probably the worst. Very little 

1 find redeeming about this. Even in history. Couple of good writers 
and artists 1 guess. 



. 

2016-07-30 
15:41:26, Sat 

INBOX 

\nB) f*cking conniving cheating savages. At statecraft, 
athletics, you name it. I'm glad I'm on Team USA. ' 


t 

...\nD) talking with ;, who’s been great. Going back 

through acting DCM. All good, and asked him to keep quiet, 
bu+H3382t 1 think it's likely he will inform main State and they may 
call over to see what's going on. Will forward you the update I'm 

ahoiif fn cenrl Rill 

2016-07-30 

INBOX 

And unrelated, re work, of course 1 thought about you going. No 

18:24:56, Sat 


chance Andy would want someone there for visibility? 

2016-07-30 

18:25:27, Sat 

OUTBOX 

One sec, 

2016-07-30 

18:25:44, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No chance of me going. He trusts you guys. 

2016-07-30 

18:26:39, Sat 

INBOX 

And poop. I'm glad he does, 

but just saying. Poop. 

2016-07-30 

20:35:35, Sat 

OUTBOX 

The Real Plot Against America http://nyti.ms/2amhEYR 

2016-07-30 

21:56:01, Sat 

OUTBOX 

\u2018l\u2019m Resigned to Having a Terrible President\u2019 
http://nyti.ms/2aoV6GV 

2016-07-31 

16:36:02, Sun 

INBOX 

doing a million administrative things, dealing with 
personnel tweaks. 

2016-07-31 

23:10:23, Sun 

INBOX 


2016-07-31 

23:11:35, Sun 

INBOX 

And damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other 
one did, too, but that was to ensure we didn't F something up. This 
matters because this MATTERS. \n\nSo super glad to be on this 
voyage with you. \U0001f636 

2016-07-31 

23:12:06, Sun 

INBOX 

Roger thanks 

2016-07-31 

23:13:52, Sun 

INBOX 

Thanks for doing that... 

2016-07-31 

23:14:59, Sun 

INBOX 

Well wait a minute. Sentinel now shows Go with 

this one. 

2016-07-31 
23:15:58, Sun 

INBOX 

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2016-07-31 

23:20:46, Sun 

OUTBOX 

So on the other text, is Moffa ind 

2016-07-31 

23:27:00, Sun 

INBOX 

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23:28:52, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Don't you have their numbers in your phone? 

2016-07-31 

23:30:01, Sun 

INBOX 

Sigh. Yes. But 1 need to go check... 

2016-07-31 

23:30:32, Sun 

INBOX 

Plus 1 don't want the DD's office texting my people direct. I'm a 
control freak. :D 

2016-07-31 

23:31:03, Sun 

INBOX 

Other way around. 

2016-07-31 

23:31:11, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Oh please. 1 will find that out right quick. This is all about whether 
you want to make it easy on yourself. 

2016-07-31 

23:31:17. Sun 

OUTBOX 

Ha. Thanks. 




2016-07-31 

23:39:02, Sun 

OUTBOX 

This makes me very 



angry.\n\nDonald Trump\u2019s Confrontation With Muslim 
Soldier\u2019s Parents Emerges as Unexpected Flash Point 
htto://nvti.ms/2aEwvez 

2016-07-31 

INBOX 

Yeah I'm furious about it. Interwebs are on fire. 

23:41:10, Sun 



2016-08-01 
01:38:23, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 mean seriously. What in the hell is this guy talking about? 
\n\nDonald Trump Gives Questionable Explanation of Events in 
Ukraine http://nvti.ms/2arMCvV 

2016-08-01 

01:58:10, Mon 

OUTBOX 

How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising 
Donald Trump http://nvti.ms/2aFv026 

2016-08-01 
16:11:37, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 am just waiting for my calendar to open so 1 can check Andy's 
schedule and then 1 can go. 

2016-08-01 
20:07:55, Mon 

INBOX 

Did Andy mention if he talked to 1 Don't ask if he didn't, just 

curious. 

2016-08-01 

20:11:03, Mon 

OUTBOX 

He didn't reach him. He said he would try again. 

2016-08-01 

20:38:03, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Ha. That’s fine. I'm walking down to andy now. 

2016-08-01 
21:01:13, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Ho boy. Don't tell moffa, but andy is cancelling their brief. And he 
wants it first. 

2016-08-01 

21:06:27, Mon 

INBOX 

Worried about it? 

2016-08-01 

21:06:44, Mon 

INBOX 

1 think that's smart. Bill may need a little saving from himself.... 

2016-08-01 
21:56:10, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Also, Andy spoke to was out, he has a POC for you 

over there when you need it. 

2016-08-01 

22:07:25, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Brief for tomorrow is just for DD now. It's better that way, 1 think. 

2016-08-02 

12:04:11, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hi! Good meeting?:) 


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12:04:29, Tue 

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2016-08-02 

12:04:43, Tue 

INBOX 

With the \ yes, good meeting 

2016-08-02 

12:05:22, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Whoa, 

2016-08-02 

12:06:10, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Make sure you can lawfully protect what you sign. Just thinking 
about congress, foia, etc. 

2016-08-02 

12:07:06, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm sure it's fine, 1 just don't know how protection of intel-type 
stuff works in that context. 

2016-08-02 

12:07:21, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You probably know better than me. 

2016-08-02 

12:07:43, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh. You're Gering this to review. 1 TOLD you that you should have 
come.;) 

2016-08-02 

12:19:34, Tue 

INBOX 

Getting, not Gering. Just sent to your fbinet email. \n\nAnd hi. 

\U 0001f636\U0001f636\U 000 If 636 

2016-08-02 

12:20:22, Tue 

OUTBOX 

K. I probably won't be in until about 9. Could you send to and 

trisha too? 

2016-08-02 
12:41:51, Tue 

INBOX 

\u0500\u03b3\u0201l did. \n\nBut if you were here, you could be 
reading it now as we wa 

2016-08-02 

12:42:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 know.:(\n\nl just called trisha to make sure she looks at it soon. 
She is acting Jim so probably still in morning meetings. 

2016-08-02 

12:45:39, Tue 

INBOX 

@ + @Ooh ooh ooh. also told at their mentoring 

session, "one day 1 can see you on my staff."\n\nAnd "ive cracked 
the code. Come to me and I'll tell v 

2016-08-02 

12:48:06, Tue 

INBOX 

@ + @ou how to get where you want to go."\n\nWhat an 
ASTOUNDING douche 

2016-08-02 

13:36:19, Tue 

INBOX 

Dude hurry up and get in. 1 worry ogc is making happy to glad 
changes which are nice to have but not legally necessary and which 
will derail this thing. 

2016-08-02 
13:37:09, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm here. Reading it now 

2016-08-02 

14:37:30, Tue 

INBOX 

Interesting fact. Guy we’re about to interview was 

2016-08-02 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, that's helpful is calling you a bunch of d*cks right now. 


16:56:19, Tue 


2016-08-02 

INBOX 

Tell him to suck it! Enjoy your presentation about background 

17:00:39, Tue 


investigations! 


2016-08-02 
17:01:09, Tue 


OUTBOX 


We're all in the same place then. Ttyl. 


2016-08-02 
17:50:13, Tue 


OUTBOX 


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2016-08-02 

19:55:44, Tue 

INBOX 

And you HAVE had to deal with and 1 thought 

was out all this week 

2016-08-02 

21:53:59, Tue 

INBOX 

Hi. emailed me, so im hoping that might mean you're 

done...\U0001f636 

2016-08-02 
22:44:57, Tue 

INBOX 

@ 00 @And hey. 1 just had an extraordinary flash of anger that our 
long-stated desire to DoJ to get us comments by Thursday in order 
to have a meeting on Frida 

2016-08-02 

22:45:01, Tue 

INBOX 

@ 00 @y was trumped by anc being absent. You 

know what? I'm absent now. I'll be back on Wed. So, DoJ, stick to 
the original time frame we’ve had 

2016-08-02 
22:45:02, Tue 

INBOX 

@ 00 @so Pete can be present. 1 guess and being 

there is SO much more important. Crank crank crank. \n\nAre we 
still having a meeting on Fri? 

2016-08-02 

23:03:21, Tue 

INBOX 

@ 8 @ And just heard from Jon. Thanks so so much for having the 
discipline to wait another 24 hours to have the first meeting about 
the case with DoJ. 1 reall 

2016-08-02 

23:25:44, Tue 

INBOX 

@8 @y appreciate it. 

2016-08-02 

23:30:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Jesus. There's a lot to read here. Let me call check in with andy, 

and 1 will call you. 

2016-08-03 
00:57:16, Wed 

INBOX 

@ P @Yeah well I'm going to go write some recollections from the 
interviews this afternoon. The fact that I'm thinking of things that I 
iust mentioned right n 

2016-08-03 

00:57:17, Wed 

INBOX 

@ p (Sow that 1 didn't immediately remember makes me think 1 
need to get them jotted down. 

2016-08-03 

00:57:50. Wed 

INBOX 

Ooh. Remind me about the seif and the embassy history. 

2016-08-03 

00:58:10, Wed 

INBOX 

And 1 want to tell you now. \U0001f636 

2016-08-03 

00:58:33, Wed 

INBOX 

The first part needs to be on another system, though. Or in person. 

2016-08-03 

INBOX 

Oooh. And remind me 

01:07:28, Wed 


\U0001f628 

2016-08-03 
01:08:44, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Think so. Not sure. For sure his RNC experience is going to be a 
zero, don't know enough to tell more. 

2016-08-03 
01:09:26, Wed 

INBOX 

A zero in terms of not the same characters? 

2016-08-03 
01:10:12, Wed 

INBOX 

Also, Ihm preamble is fine, i cannot believe how long it took 
\U0001f612 

2016-08-03 

01:10:25, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Just don't think it's going to be useful. Think interactions are going 
to be more with his security folks. (Be he has private, ex-Bu ones in 
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@ p talked about the Embassy. It's the longest continuously 
staffed establishment in London (he noted the Austrian was the 

o ldest, but they were thrown o u_ 

@p @t during the War (s)) 



201G-08-03 
01:50:27, Wed 

INBOX 

Random fact? (I'm looking at the dip list to get a name) Armenian 
Ambassador to London? Armen Sarkissian. Wife Nouneh. 

2016-08-03 
02:14:50, Wed 

OUTBOX 

FYI, just checked yellow, and there are POCs for you from both 
OGAs waiting there for you. Both may have already reached out. 
Safe travels home. 

2016-08-03 
07:33:34, Wed 

OUTBOX 

New case. Information flow. Control. 

2016-08-03 
07:34:14, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Andy. The dynamic. \n\nAnd yeah, but it's not mine to worry 
about. 

2016-08-03 

07:35:59, Wed 

INBOX 

@ (1 @Right there with you. Already told 

2016-08-03 

07:36:03, Wed 

INBOX 

\n\nl plan on telling Bill I'm 

obviously going to tell him anything he wants to know, but 
recommend we not tell him or highe 

2016-08-03 
07:36:05, Wed 

INBOX 

@ (1 @r specific data so that he and higher can tell DOJ, even we 
don't know the admin details. 

2016-08-03 
07:36:24, Wed 

INBOX 

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07:37:02, Wed 

OUTBOX 

No it's not. Not like this. He's clearly not. 

2016-08-03 

07:38:31, Wed 

INBOX 

\u0500\u0318\uQ302this is MUCH more tasty for one of those 
aholes to leak. For th 

2016-08-03 
07:38:35, Wed 

INBOX 

\u0500\u0318\u0303e first time in a while I'm not worried about 
our side. \U0001f612 

2016-08-03 
07:39:29, Wed 

INBOX 

He's clearly not what? Worrying about 

BESS SI 

OUTBOX 

Information flow and control. 

2016-08-03 

07:40:58, Wed 

INBOX 

He should be. 1 can reinforce that when 1 brief you/Bill, and Andy, if 

1 talk to him about it. 

2016-08-03 
17:51:41, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Sheesh, I'm glad you're back. I'm really busy. I'm about to send an 
email. We NEED to focus on getting mye out the door, and quickly. 
We're not going to be able to withstand the pressure soon. 

2016-08-03 

17:54:00, Wed 

INBOX 

Yep we do, and 1 haven't experienced the last two days on it. I'll call 
(you know there's no way 1 could wait, though will be in the cab), 
let me know what 1 need to push. \n\nAnd hi \U0001f60a 

2016-08-03 
18:54:45, Wed 

INBOX 

I like you dealing with Laufman. \u263a\n\nAnd we may beat 410. 
Rahmatullah Rahimi drives like the wind in his Prius... 

2016-08-03 
19:08:48, Wed 

OUTBOX 

What's the plan for briefing Bill? Have you reached out to him? 

2016-08-03 
19:09:15, Wed 

INBOX 

Not yet \U0001f636 

2016-08-03 

19:09:49, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Oh, be that's on purpose? 

2016-08-03 
19:10:07, Wed 

INBOX 

Wanted to get in first. Ideally want to do when you and Moffa are 
around. Should 1 send an email to the three of you re availability 

2016-08-03 

19:10:28, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Have you called George? I'm telling you, you should do that before 
you get in here. 

2016-08-03 

19:10:32, Wed 

INBOX 

No. Just hadn't thought it through yet. Will send an email. At 14th 
and Penn. 

2016-08-03 

19:10:41, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Oh! \U0001f636 

2016-08-03 
19:11:07, Wed 

INBOX 

1 havent, but 1 don't want to talk in front of our cab driver. I'll call 
him from cell from my office. 

2016-08-03 

19:15:18, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Or mine. \U0001f636 

2016-08-03. 
21:38:55, Wed 

INBOX 

Hi. Our 4:00 meeting was Not Helpful. \U0001f60a\U0001f636 


2016-08-03 OUTBOX in my ofc. Will let you know when he is gone. 

22:10:20, Wed __ 

2016-08-04 INBOX I did ok briefing Bill yesterday... :D 

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23:59:34, Thu 

INBOX ■ 

Yep. \n\nTrying to be grownup and not ask to come tomorrow 
based on mye, overlap. Jon's brief, he's got it. 1 just love, 

and am good, at thinking thru it. 

2016-08-05 

00:01:38, Fri 

INBOX 

Yep but willing to bet all those things will come up. Along with ci 
briefs to candidates. 

2016-08-05 
00:01:50, Fri 

INBOX 

We need to figure out what's going on with that 

2016-08-05 

00:02:14, Fri 

OUTBOX 

We need jon to enter in his guys to the system. 

2016-08-05 

00:02:27, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Oh, we haven't talked about that solution yet, have we? 

2016-08-05 

00:02:39, Fri 

OUTBOX 

It's pretty elegant. 

2016-08-05 

00:03:00, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Don't really want to tell you here. Will tell you tomorrow. 

2016-08-05 

00:03:51, Fri 

INBOX 

Oh, they brought it up - to check when it gets entered 

2016-08-05 

00:04:09, Fri 

INBOX 

Without having g to ask/rely on others 

2016-08-05 
00:04:20, Fri 

INBOX 

mentioned it 

2016-08-05 
00:10:42, Fri 

INBOX 

Seriously, you don't think I should try and go to the AM meeting? 

How does it not involve extensive discussions about the 

lag 

OUTBOX 

Pete. It's not a meeting. It's pulling up jon for 5 minutes to discuss 
lanes in the road. 

2016-08-05 

00:11:35, Fri 

INBOX 

Think of the threshold you use when deciding whether you go to a 
meeting.. .\n\nOk \U0001f636 

2016-08-05 
00:12:06, Fri 

INBOX 

Gonna take more than 5 minutes. Or, give Andy the questions 
/issues for an answer later. 

2016-08-05 
00:12:57, Fri 

OUTBOX 

It's quick and informal. And this is not going to be the last 
opportunity to talk about this. Especially il 
there will be lots of time to discuss. 

2016-08-05 
00:16:24, Fri 

INBOX 

1 get it. I'm not talking about options so much as the difficult 
questions are ones that I'm directly involved with. \n\nBut OK. 1 
will. If you were in my spot, wouldn't you want to go? For examole 

1 have no desire to be at the joint run through with Cyber. 

2016-08-05 

00:17:35, Fri 

OUTBOX 

And how many meeting are you at that Jon has an equal 

right and contribution to make that’he is not at? 

2016-08-05 

00:18:27, Fri 

INBOX 

Those times 1 can invite him, 1 do. 

2016-08-05 
00:18:57, Fri 

INBOX 

And 1, for example, the agency said today their group is too big to 
come to us. So we either go to them, and Jon is out, or reschedule 
till next week. What should 1 do? 


2016-08-05 I INBOX Re your question, I can think of two with Andy. 

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Reschedule. 


Pete, I'm not going to fight with you about this. You asked for my 
opinion, I gave it to you. _ 


2016-08-05 

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And push till next week? We willing to bear the "FBI is delaying" 
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The work right now is all analytical. Does Monday make a 
difference? Will the othe r analysts go?_ 


My concern is the perceived delay of not doing it this week. A day 
clearly doesn't matter, though we pushed till the end of this week 
at my request due to not being available at the beginning of the 
week._ 


And it's not just analysis. And, shockingly, agents are also capable 
of analysis as well... _ 


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Okay, I'm done having this conversation with you. 


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I asked if the other analysts would be going. 


That's up to Jon. I just told him I was calling and telling her he 
needs to be there and to reschedule to Monday unless he doesn't 
want to do that. 


Are you going by yourself or planning to take others? 


No, I told lim, me, just our leadership. Her group is 
apparently too big to fit into a car. \U0001f612__ 


If Jon says keep it, I will take and defer to Jon if he wants me to 
take one of his guys. \n\nBut when we spoke earlier, he wanted 
me to p ostpone it _ 


Yes Peter. That is my point. She has a whole team, all you need is 
yours elf._ 


No, damnit, that's not it. I don't want to wait longer. 


What I don't like about their behavior is knowing we were only 
bringing leadership, they can't bring three to us? 

But instead they'll fill the room to take notes on everything we say 
and also ensure that no one on their side says anything sensitivr 


Sensitive. 


And why I told Jon I was going to push the meetig 


2016-08-05 

00:39:35, Fri 

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Meeting 

2016-08-05 

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So ask them to skinny down and come to you. It’s your meeting, 

00:40:12, Fri 


and we're leading this effort. 

2016-08-05 

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And so you know, I value your advice. Letting the meeting 

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tomorrow go, and rescheduling the one tomorrow so Jon can be 
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stuff, noth ing else is that pressing. _ 

That's not true. There's the meeting with my team, the meeting at 
the agency (looks like Jon can go, not sure where the notion of a 
schedule conflict came from), mye, everything else in my Section, 
acting DAD.\n 


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Have M w f meetings with at 9 like we did with mye. 

\n\nNee d to tall to you about Bill ___ 

too, right? 

Not sure. Probably, right? Defer to 


2016-08-05 

14:53:45, Fri 

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I'm just going to invite him. Though it’s a big group now (10). 

Added baker. 

2016-08-05 

14:59:40, Fri 

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4 ogc attorneys... 


2016-08-05 

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2016-08-05 
15:00:18, Fri 

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Agreed. Okay, whatever. 

2016-08-05 

16:37:25, Fri 

INBOX 

And hi. Went well, best we could have expected. Other than 
quote, "the White House is running this." 

2016-08-05 

16:37:46, Fri 

INBOX 

My answer, "well, maybe for you they are." \U0001f612 

2016-08-05 

16:44:35, Fri 

INBOX 

And of course, 1 was planning on telling this guy, thanks for coming, 
we've got an hour, but with Bill there, I've got no control. 

\n\nWhat time do vou need to leave? 

2016-08-05 

16:54:55, Fri 

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Don't you have work to do? 

2016-08-05 

16:55:26, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, whatever (re the WH comment). We've got emails that say 
otherwise. 

2016-08-05 

20:45:10, Fri 

INBOX 

Gotta see Bill. Ttyl. 

2016-08-05 
22:05:41, Fri 

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Jesus, are you STILL talking to Bill? \U0001f612 

2016-08-05 

22:10:10, Fri 

INBOX 

He is FREAKING out 

2016-08-05 
22:34:13, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Think I'm going in on Sunday. 2-3 hours. I just NEED to read that 
LHM or I'm not going to be able to. 

2016-08-05 

22:41:05, Fri 

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I can also email it to you if you want me to encouraging ERASing... 

2016-08-05 

22:41:49, Fri 

INBOX 

Encourage 

2016-08-05 

22:49:18, Fri 

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No, 1 have it on eras. 1 can't read critically that way. . 

2016-08-06 
10:40:39, Sat 

INBOX 

I'm not sure. 1 had a lot of late back and forth with on the 

Told her had done them but it was last night. Think 

it's that but I'm not certain. I'll ask him. 

2016-08-06 

10:40:46, Sat 

INBOX 

Just emailed him and Jon 

2016-08-06 
11:28:43, Sat 

INBOX 

And Jon and 1 are about to go ballistic, between email (if 

you're frustrated at 12:09 and you haven't tried to call me at some 
point before then, part of this is on you) AND THE ABSOLUTE 
INABILITY GO SEND ANY EMAIL.\U0001f621 

2016-08-06 

11:35:06, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, the email seemed a little unnecessarily harsh. I mean, it's not 
like we all haven't been working on it all damn day. 

2016-08-06 

11:44:39, Sat 

INBOX 

And 1 can't send a f*cking email in response.... 

2016-08-06 

11:45:17, Sat 

INBOX 

Just pulled out eras, talking to 1500... 

2016-08-06 

11:46:19, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Hmm. I'm going to send you a low side email, see if it is just you. 

2016-08-06 

11:46:53, Sat 

INBOX 

Thanks. Jon can't either. I can receive just fine 

2016-08-06 

11:47:08, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Sending failed. 

2016-08-06 

11:47:47, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 do wonder if it was a quasi-drunk email... 

2016-08-06 

11:47:57, Sat 

INBOX 

Yup. Think it's a system - wide thing. Call 1500 and make them put 
in a ticket. Could we suck more? 


2016-08-06 

11:49:28, Sat 

INBOX 

Might have been. And we’re fine. Still 

2016-08-06 

13:52:00, Sat 

INBOX 

Did you read the one pager sent to Andy,the 

What on earth? \U0001f615 

2016-08-06 

13:56:03, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes. Incomprehensible. 1 was utterly shocked that he is as 
impressed by him as he is. 

2016-08-06 

13:56:40, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 had no idea what those lists are supposed to mean. No wonder 
Andy didn't remember reading it. \U0001f612 

2016-08-06 

13:56:50, Sat 

INBOX 

I'm speechless. Did Andy say anything? 1 mean, it's bad. It's going to 
hurt reputation. 

2016-08-06 

13:57:08, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No, 1 haven't talked to him about it yet. 

2016-08-06 

13:57:24, Sat 

INBOX 

God just avoid it and hope it goes away. 

2016-08-06 

13:57:34, Sat 

OUTBOX 

But you'll recall, said he gave it to Andy before. Andy probably 
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13:57:45, Sat 

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I've got to figure out a way to broach with 

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2016-08-06 

13:58:29, Sat 

INBOX 

Oh. 1 thought this was the first time. This is what Eric wrote? It 
didn't say that in the email. 

2016-08-06 
13:59:56, Sat 

INBOX 

And 1 don't know if 1 can mention to 1... look, as a friend. I’d 

be cautious about what you send to the DD...he's got limited 
bandwidth and I’d be really selective? \n\n\nl mean, 1 don't 
know...it’s really bad. 1 had to force myself to read all of it carefully. 

2016-08-06 

14:15:12, Sat 

INBOX 

1 wasn't there when 1 said he had given it to Andy before 

2016-08-06 

14:24:55, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No, on this, you can't say anything. Moffa and 1 were discussing. 

The most you can say is "I'm not sure 1 found that as compelling as 
you did" or something to that effect. 

2016-08-06 

14:27:02, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Emails appear to be going through now. 

2016-08-06 

14:30:45, Sat 

INBOX 

Yeah 1 don't know. I've got a different relationship with him than 

Jon does but 1 don't know if 1 can do much on this. 

2016-08-06 

14:31:43, Sat 

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1 just don't think this one is the right one to bring up with him. 

2016-08-06 
14:33:29, Sat 

INBOX 

That's fair. 1 just hate not mentioning it because it plays to/ 
highlights some of weaknesses (some true, some perceived). 

And it’s absolutely the wrong time to bring it up. 

2016-08-06 

14:34:27, Sat 

OUTBOX 

We've all talked to him a lot about it. He's now got to figure it out 
for himself. 

2016-08-06 

14:36:39, Sat 

INBOX 

Yeah but working for him that calculation is different. And certainly 
much more so in the event 1 get the DAD job. 

2016-08-06 

14:37:01, Sat 

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Yeah, maybe. 

2016-08-06 

14:37:08, Sat 

INBOX 

And that's weighing on me much more than 1 want to admit to you 
(or probably myself). 

2016-08-06 

14:37:33, Sat 

INBOX 

Getting/not getting the job, not advising Bill 

2016-08-06 
14:38:09, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Jesus. You should read this. And Trump should go f himself. 
\n\nMoment in Convention Glare Shakes Up Khans\u2019 

American Life http://nyti.ms/2aHuLE0 

2016-08-06 

14:41:33, Sat 

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1 know. And as it stands,I'm going to have (and already do) a pretty 
tough time with it. \n\n5 months, Lisa. Out of 19 years. 5 months, 
because Giacalone was too busy interviewing to be there to SES 
board it earlier. There was literally NO difference in what 1 was 
doing dav to dav. 

2016-08-06 

14:42:34, Sat 

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1 know, 1 know. It's senseless and not fair, but you can't 

control it. 

2016-08-06 

14:53:36, Sat 

INBOX 

God that's a great article. 

\UOOOlf621\U000lf6le\U000If6le\u2764\n\nThanks for sharing. 
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And maybe you're meant to stay where you are because you're 
meant to protect the country from that menace. To that end, read 
this: 

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14:55:19, Sat 

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Trump\u2019s Enablers Will Finally Have to Take a Stand 
http://nyti.ms/2aFakrv 

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15:04:43, Sat 

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Thanks. It's absolutely true that we're both very fortunate. 

\n\nAnd of course I'll try and approach it that way. 1 just know it 
will be tough at times.\n\nl can protect our country at many levels, 
not sure if that helos... 

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15:05:51, Sat 

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1 know it will too. But it's just a job. It's not a reflection of your 
worth or quality or smarts. 

2016-08-06 
15:28:50, Sat 

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1 really like this:\nHe appears to have no ability to experience 
reverence, which is the foundation for any capacity to admire or 
serve anything bigger than self, to want to learn about anything 
beyond self, to want to know and deeply honor the people around 

vou. 

2016-08-06 

15:30:59, Sat 

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Sigh. That's the paragraph, upon reading, that caused me to want 
to send it to you. \U0001f636 


2016-08-06 OUTBOX Okay, so maybe not the best national security president, but a 

17:24:11, Sat genuinely good and decent human being.\n\nPresident Barack 


lObama on Feminism, Michelle, and His Daughters | 

'Glamour\n http://www.glamour.com/story/glamour-exclusive- 
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17:34:25, Sat 

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Yeah, 1 like him. Just not a fan of the vyeakness globally. Was 
thinking about what the administration will be willing to do re 
Russia. As 1 tried to focus Bill. 

2016-08-07 

12:58:44, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Carl. Jon Moffa. 

2016-08-07 

12:59:16, Sun 

OUTBOX 

You trust these people. You've just never tried to trust them with 
anything other than work. 

2016-08-08 

00:10:09, Mon 

INBOX 

Well, I'll be here if you want to bounce questions tonight, and will 
be in early tomorrow...either way... 

2016-08-08 

00:13:02, Mon 

INBOX 

Truly, will make you this offer - will input your changes as you finish 
reading what you haven't done yet. Plus, it's all the cyber 
stuff...your eyes will glaze over. 

2016-08-08 

00:15:30, Mon 

INBOX 

But if you want me to kick you in the butt to motivate you to go in, 
let me know. You can be done with it by 9:30 or so...leave it and 1 
can start inputting changes when 1 get in tomorrow morning. 

2016-08-08 

12:31:32, Mon 

INBOX 

Hey head Andy called Jason 

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12:34:36, Mon 

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Oh he did? So does he start today? 

2016-08-08 

13:05:09, Mon 

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Sounds like it - Jason was looking for me...talkto you in 30 or so 

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K. Done. Stop by in a few? 

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INBOX . 

K heading up 

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15:14:52, Mon 

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Hey no update yet, waiting on Moffa, he’s in with Dina at mtg 
scheduled to end at ll...\U0001f612 

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15:28:43, Mon 

INBOX 

Hey talked to him, will let him fill you in. Internal joint cyber cd 

Intel piece for D, scenesetter for arief, 

directed ail the cyber info be pulled. Doesn't make sense, at all. I'd 

think let Bill and Jim hammer out first, though it would be best for 

D to have it before the Wed WH session. 

2016-08-08 

15:28:50, Mon 

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But doesn't need you to step out 

2016-08-08 

15:51:33, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hey 1 didn't understand the above. I just tried your desk and cell. 

2016-08-08 

15:53:52, Mon 

INBOX 

Sorry missed the first ring. Eating with Jason. 

2016-08-08 

17:13:07, Mon 

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Heading up 


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Okay, but 1 need to talk to in a little bit. Strategizing about you, 
actually. 

2016-08-09 

03:26:25, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?! 

2016-08-09 

10:08:45, Tue 

INBOX 

What prompted the Trump.comment last night? 

2016-08-09 

10:09:28, Tue 

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Just reading the times. 

2016-08-09 

14:31:04, Tue 

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Funny. is here. Has a 1030 with Steinbach. \U0001f612 


2016-08-09 

14:31:15, Tue 

INBOX 

Both of them are still in meetings. 

2016-08-09 

15:54:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Ho boy. 

2016-08-09 

16:20:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Just finished Bill wants another 5 

2016-08-09 

16:21:50, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Im.coming down to talk to Bill. 

2016-08-09 

17:00:17, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He said he spoke to mike, and that Mike said he supports you, so 
maybe you don't need to say anything. Just email randy. 

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Hey 1 ran into Bill, he wants to keep the brief smaller. His point 
(which I hadn't thought of) is Andy is more likely to share his 
internal thinking in front of a smaller group of people he knows 
rather than a larger group. Plus, fysa/atmospherics, Bill noted "it's 
just so hard to get time with him." Whether true or not that's Bills 
perception. Thought you'd want to know 

OMG did you hear what Trump just said? 

Just sent you report with changes accepted 


And hey, do i need to tell Randy the board is Thurs? 
I'd shoot him an email. 


What Intelligence Briefings Can Tell Us About Candidates 

nyti.ms/2aUCaQB _ 

Hey I did not mention to Jon Andy's preference for more detail. 
Would you send an email to him. Bill and I saying same, e.g., don't 
care who, but need to be able to deep dive?\n\nThen Jon and I can 
meet with Bill and decide. \n\nUnless you want to handle 
diffe 


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10:45:38, Wed 

OUTBOX 

That's fine. 

2016-08-10 
10:49:21, Wed 

OUTBOX 

You can imsg again if you had more to say. 

2016-08-10 
11:35:59, Wed 

INBOX 

About to drive. Talk in a sec - work? 

2016-08-10 

11:53:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Going to go sit in on the morning brief. Carl said it's s good one and 

1 shouldn't miss it. Ttyl. 

2016-08-10 
15:34:14, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Been talking to for like an hour. Was a really good talk. 


Can I stop by? TON to tell you 


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Hey call me re D brief. Moffa and I had the immediate same 
reaction 


In fairness, from the email i's not clear what wf is proposing to do 


And hey, I read that wfo email again and it's just a press inquiry 
and confusion/suggestion might be linked to it...not 

consi deration of opening a case. _ 

Got it. Yeah, the press inquiry was brief at wrap. Didn't mention to 

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00:34:30, Thu 

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Oh, and funny. Ran intc AGAIN this afternoon going to the 

briefing. He peeled off to Mikes. Not sure if he had to reschedule 
from yesterday. . 

2016-08-11 
00:34:39, Thu 

INBOX 

He looked sheepish.... 

2016-08-11 
00:35:19, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Well, he can't rely on quality... 

2016-08-11 

00:46:22, Thu 

INBOX 

went crazy stalky on me to figure out if there was 
anything to the inquiry. She IS persistent. 

2016-08-11 

INBOX 

So. You come up with a codename? 

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00:53:00, Thu 

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Ooh. 1 like it \n\nWant me to send to 

2016-08-11 

00:53:39, Thu 

OUTBOX 

If you want. 

2016-08-11 

00:53:46, Thu 

INBOX 

Why (other than it sounds badass, and you came up with 

it \U0001f636) 

2016-08-11 

00:54:24, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Trying to think of something without being 

obvious. 

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00:56:56, Thu 

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2016-08-11 
00:57:27, Thu 

INBOX 

OMG 1 CANNOT BELIEVE WE ARE SERIOUSLY LOOKING AT THESE 

ALLEGATIONS AND THE PERVASIVE CONNECTIONS 

2016-08-11 
00:57:41, Thu 

INBOX 

What the hell has happened to our country!?!?!?? 

2016-08-11 
11:13:28, Thu 

INBOX 

Is Baker around today? 1 need 5 minutes with him. You can cone 
ifnyou want. 1 want to talk to him about the Cl brief, specifically the 

hhHIihh 

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2016-08-11 
11:16:21, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'll think about it. 1 bet baker can handle. 

2016-08-11 

11:18:15, Thu 

INBOX 

Thanks. \n\nWill read shortly, hustling to get out the door. 

2016-08-11 

16:06:05, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Andy had a wry smile when i saw me waiting for him. Of course 1 
have no idea what that means. 

2016-08-11 

16:18:22, Thu 

INBOX 

We decided to take to lunch instead. \U0001f61c 

2016-08-1.1 
16:18:42, Thu 

INBOX 

Still have room for you.... 

2016-08-11 

16:18:47, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Jerkies. 

2016-08-11 
16:19:10, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'm still waiting for Andy to come out of his meeting so 1 can get the 
news! 

2016-08-11 

16:19:27, Thu 

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Ha. Yes. 

2016-08-11 
16:21:44, Thu 

INBOX 

Lost Moffa somewhere. Added 

2016-08-11 
16:22:16, Thu 

OUTBOX 

How could you lose Moffa? He's like 6 feet tall? 

2016-08-11 

16:23:23, Thu 

INBOX 

He disappeared 

2016-08-11 
16:56:50, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Congratulations, You're the new DAD of the 

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2016-08-11 
16:56:56, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Don't tell... 

2016-08-11 

16:58:36, Thu 

INBOX 

1 pm then follow on with Bill. DoJ 

at 4 then Baker 430. 

2016-08-11 

16:59:14, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Obviously, don't tell Bill. I'll call you when I'm back. 

2016-08-11 

20:30:43, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Can you and come up and see me when you are done? 

2016-08-11 
20:31:06, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Is with you? Can you please come up here? 

2016-08-11 

20:31:49, Thu 

INBOX 

A) whew. 1 did \U0001f636\nB) walking to see JB. She is still in 

4017 

2016-08-11 

20:36:48, Thu 

INBOX 

We’re in Jims SCIF 

2016-08-11 

22:58:37, Thu 

OUTBOX 

On with rybicki. 

2016-08-11 
23:20:02, Thu 

INBOX 

Hey just swung by your office on the way out...you close by? 
Otherwise will head out 

2016-08-11 

23:20:14, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'm in kortan 

2016-08-11 
23:21:07, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Coming with herring, you need to leave. 

2016-08-11 
23:21:36, Thu 

INBOX 

Going towards affice 

2016-08-11 
23:21:47, Thu 

INBOX 

Sorry, to nslb 

2016-08-11 
23:21:55, Thu 

INBOX 

1 hear you 

2016-08-12 

11:46:09, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Do you get a car as DAD? What time will you have to be there? 

2016-08-12 

12:00:49, Fri 

INBOX 

1 do get a car. 1 don't know if I'm authorized to take it home. 
Obviously will check on that. 745 first meeting, so 730... 

2016-08-12 
12:01:39, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey Jon and 1 talked round and round on these briefs, whether to 
leave him and me or give to Do you think Andy would have a 

preference? Do vou? 


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12:01:50, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I think give to 

2016-08-12 

12:01:58, Fri 

INBOX 

Need to get a final answer to this morning. 

2016-08-12 
12:02:05, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 think it protects you guys better. 

2016-08-12 

12:02:11, Fri 

INBOX 

Would Andy object? 

2016-08-12 

12:04:08, Fri 

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To No, I can't imagine he would. 

2016-08-12 

12:04:51, Fri 

INBOX 

Bill sent an email asking to see me at 9 or 11....have a mtg 

at 9, so 11 it is 

2016-08-12 
13:09:38, Fri 

INBOX 

Hi. Bill pulled me aside to say he was told the board went the way 
he,wanted, but still needs the D’s blessing 

2016-08-12 

13:10:03, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yay. \U0001f60a 

2016-08-12 

14:57:58, Fri 

INBOX 

And that's SUPER aggravating about flipping \U0001f621 

2016-08-12 
15:00:24, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah whatever. 

2016-08-12 
15:01:05, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Hey you N EED to pull that 302 before you leave for the day. 

2016-08-12 

15:31:22, Fri 

INBOX 

Come down. To my office for lunch I'll pull it now 

2016-08-12 

INBOX 

And I'm going to blow your mind 


15:31:39. Fri 


2016-08-12 

15:57:39, Fri 

INBOX 

Let me know when you're done, we can eat 

2016-08-12 
15:58:03, Fri 

INBOX 

And/or discuss 302s, as needed 

2016-08-12 
16:40:29, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey 1 have a 130 with Bill and would like to eat before then. Should 

1 wait for you? Maybe go at 1 if 1 haven't heard from you? 

2016-08-12 

16:47:12, Fri 

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1 don't have to grab anything be now 1 need to write up an email to 
the d explaining all of this. 

2016-08-12 

19:29:01, Fri 

INBOX 

You around? 1 NEED to talk to you before 1 go 

2016-08-13 

00:38:33, Sat 

INBOX 

Just talked to . Indications Guccifer 2.0 claiming massive hack of 
Congress, or at least Dems. All on line now.\n\nS:gh, Well he's 
going to feel super defensive, because as you pointed out, he was 
there all week. You going to stew until you talk? If so, might as well 
get it out... 

2016-08-13 

00:52:43, Sat 

INBOX 

Cells and private emails for House Dems 

2016-08-13 

01:03:03, Sat 

OUTBOX 

God, did you read some of the comments on that article?! 

2016-08-13 

01:32:54, Sat 

INBOX 

And the comments in the Smoking Gun article? Can't get them to 
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Im going to have do his Cl brief presentation for me and Jon 

and on Mon afternoon. I want to do another one Tues Am for 

at least Bill. You think add you, Jim Baker? 1 want both rank and 
thoughtfulness for feedback. Plus repetitions for him. 

2016-08-13 

11:21:21, Sat 

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Yes. I'll be there. 

2016-08-13 

13:02:03, Sat 

INBOX 

Hey read the email 1 just sent. 1 did not include OPA or oca on the 
distro 

2016-08-13 

13:11:55, Sat . 

OUTBOX 

There's no debate. I'm going to forward to kortan. God, makes me 
want to tell state to go f it. 

2016-08-13 

13:14:29, Sat 

INBOX 

Yep! You think we should have commented, if only to rebut States 
"expectation of interagency coordination" crap? 

2016-08-13 

INBOX 

And 

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yeah. States BS just makes me want to include those additional 
302s. But that's just vindictiveness talking. 

2016-08-14 

01:13:27, Sun 

OUTBOX 

But see, this article so rings true that then 1 think the 

nside the Failing Mission to Save Donald Trump From 
Himself http://nvti.ms/2b5WSNA 

2016-08-14 

10:35:59, Sun 

OUTBOX 

This was very interesting. \n\nThe Decline of Unions and the Rise 
of Trump http://nyti.ms/2bc7alU 

2016-08-14 

10:41:11, Sun 

OUTBOX 

God this makes me so angry.\n\nDona!d Trump Is Making America 
Meaner http://nyti.ms/2b6gG38 

1 

INBOX 

I’m not! \U0001f636\n\nl saw but didn't read the first article. 

2016-08-14 

10:58:46, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Just about their force in moderating the political debate. It was 
interesting. 

2016-08-14 

11:00:46, Sun 

INBOX 

And 1 am worried about what Trump is encouraging in our 
behavior. The things that made me proud about our tolerance for 
dissent - what makes us different from Sunnis and Shias losing 
each other up - is disappearing. 

2016-08-14 

11:01:23, Sun 

OUTBOX 

That's what that last article is all about. 

2016-08-14 

11:01:54, Sun 

INBOX. 

I'm worried about what happens if HRC is elected. \n\nAnd 
perfect, another excessive h^at warning day. 

2016-08-14 
20:06:22, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Just spoke to She and and Jim in some mandatory 

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2016-08-14 

20:07:55, Sun 

INBOX 

Np. We'll get done whatever needs doing. Primarily QC, 

nor 

2016-08-14 

20:17:55, Sun 

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No, all the work of pulling out first. 

2016-08-14 

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Well, Jon and I can do that, \n\nl didn't see the 

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Hill 

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Anything other than scrub 302s for agency equities? 

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21:20:01, Sun 

INBOX 

Hey. So Rybicki just emailed me about briefing D on tomorrow 
at 330. If not then, Wed. I said we could do either. Dont know 
Andy's availability / desire to svtc in. Assume you can, right? 

2016-08-14 

21:23:09, Sun 

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Andy not going to. Either is fine for me. 

2016-08-14 

21:25:25, Sun 

INBOX 

Jim proposing D dd add ead GC Trisha you him bill me jon 

2016-08-14 

21:27:55, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Fine, 1 suppose. Don't love add obviously, but so be it. 

2016-08-14 

22:56:30, Sun 

INBOX 

And uh, yeah, 1 then forgot to actually ADD him to the distro.\n\n 

So 1 just forwarded to him. Good work, Pete, \U0001f612 

2016-08-14 

23:34:36, Sun 

INBOX 

So it's a little weird to me that Jason, a subordinate a week ago, 
will be the one discussing with Toscas amd OLA as well as with 
Steinbach and everyone else at the 8... fine, 1 guess, but weird... 

2016-08-15 
10:29:55, Mon 

INBOX 

I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in 

Andy's office - that there's no way he gets elected - but I'm afraid 
we can't take that risk. It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely 
event vou die before you're 40... 

2016-08-15 

10:41:11, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 really should take off the whole damn day. \U0001f621 

2016-08-15 

10:48:42, Mon 

INBOX 

So go ahead! We'll get the production done.\n\nl'd obviously love 
to have you at the D brief, but if not, I'll stop by and give you an in- 
person debrief. 

2016-08-15 

10:51:45, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Oh, crap, has that been scheduled? 

2016-08-15 

11:15:01, Mon 

INBOX 

Not that I've seen. JR said he'd get with this morning 

2016-08-15 

11:17:03, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Are you still acting DAD? 

2016-08-15 

11:17:28, Mon 

INBOX 

No. Why? 

2016-08-15 

11:18:05, Mon 

INBOX 

1 ask because that will change whenever board is official 


INBOX 

OMG this production alone is going to kill my inbox.... 


2016-08-15 

21:16:52, Mon 

INBOX 

Going to talk to Call me here when you're done...\U0001f60a 

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K. Want me to hold off? 

2016-08-15 
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You can come, just have something you are here to talk about. 

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2016-08-15 

22:05:22, Mon 

INBOX 

Or, 1 can walk up and find out you left. \U0001f6l2\n\nGive me a 
shout when you get back. 

2016-08-16 

00:43:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Changing topics a little, but I'm really excited about all the "whoa 
that was quick" congratulatory emails... 

2016-08-16 

00:45:07, Tue 

INBOX 

Sigh. Yeah, 1 know. 1 need to hit the right tone. Probably just, 
thanks very much, tremendous opportunity, I'm looking forward to 
it. 

2016-08-16 

10:05:29, Tue 

INBOX 

Nice email from Bowdich last night \U0001f60a 

2016-08-16 

11:21:20, Tue 

INBOX 

When's your WH thing on Thurs? You going to be too busy with 
prep? 

2016-08-16 

11:21:58, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No. No prep really. 

2016-08-16 
11:23:45, Tue 

INBOX 

Ooh. Ok, so 1 think any work. Probably Wed so I don't have to 
worry about the 1:00 cd mtg 

2016-08-16 
11:33:46, Tue 

OUTBOX 

So your first meeting is at 745 with whom. Bill? 

2016-08-16 

11:35:06, Tue 

INBOX 

730 with my Special Assistant. Who im.not convinced I need 

2016-08-16 

11:35:45, Tue 

INBOX 

And based on my Boston contacts, 1 told not to select. 

\U0001f612 

2016-08-16 

11:36:01, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 also don’t think you need one, but give it a month before you 
decide. 

2016-08-16 
22:40:19, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm strongly opposed to making any more copies for Congress. We 
limited on purpose. After careful consideration. If they let any 
particular committee get the copy, tough. Let them sort it out. 


2016-08-16 

23:08:20, Tue 

INBOX 

Can you talk briefiy?\n\nWhat time do these need to be done? 

How many copies? Stop worrying / making calls about who should 
do it. 1 will have 4-5 of my people come in early. Is complete by 10 
OK? 

2016-08-16 

23:14:17, Tue ! 

OUTBOX 

is doing it now, is headed back in. I'm going to join 

shortly. 

2016-08-17 

03:01:26, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey was or Trisha on update from Jim? Don't want Bill 

blindsided in the morning 

2016-08-17 

03:06:37, Wed 

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Trisha and 

2016-08-17 

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An article to share: Trump shakes up campaign, demotes top 
adviser\nTrump shakes up campaign, demotes top 
adviser\nhttp://wapo.st/2bzAUGD 

2016-08-17 
10:29:25, Wed 

INBOX 

Just reading it 

2016-08-17 
10:33:38, Wed 

INBOX 

Re last email and text last night, I'm going to stop asking. 1 want to 
be in the loop, also want Bill in the loop, but that's not my job. \nA) 
makes me feel like a whiny b*tch\nB) 

'.) need to talk to about making sure her clients are in 

the loop. Thats part of her job, not yours 

2016-08-17 

10:35:51, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Sigh.\n\nThe story behind the \u2018American Dream\u2019 
photo at West Point that went vira 1 - The Washington 
Post\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/20 
16/05/25/the-story-behind-the-american-dream-photo-at-west- 
point-that-went- 

v/iral/?fiH=hvhriri pynprirnpntranrlnmrhpnknnint 1 na 

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You can ask, that doesn't bother me. 

2016-08-17 

10:47:25, Wed 

INBOX 

Thats fair.\n\nl think somt times it's not directed {or not meant to 
be directed) at you, it's expressing frustration. 1 want to vent and 
you’re the only place (because of both friendship and shared 
knowledge of the email) that 1 can. \n\nl'm aware you probably 
hear me in even those times and either don't need me to tell you 
what I'm telling you, feel like I'm asking you do do something about 
it, or both. \n\nAnd sometimes. I'm just looking for a little 
validation. Yes, the Andy - George dynamic did cause some 
problems. Yes, Jim in particular isn't always good at email distro. 
Thats all.\n\nAnyway, all of this probably better talked about it 
person, or not at all.\n\nl‘m tired of it, and 1 hate myself during it 
(and 1 then remember you saying, well, at least you’re seeing it in 
yourself. So change) 

2016-08-17 

10:51:14, Wed 

INBOX 

Thank you for the article \U0001f636 

2016-08-17 

10:51:33, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Pete. 

2016-08-17 

10:51:59, Wed 

INBOX 

Yeah 1 may be overthinking 

2016-08-17 
10:53:52, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 hear you above, but 1 think 1 know the difference between when 
you are just "venting" or wanting to be validated, and when you're 
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1 agree. Yesterday was the latter, asking 

for the email last night was the former. And as you noted, probably 
ordinarily ok to gripe about it, but not last night. 




2016-08-17 

10:57:50, Wed 

INBOX 

And 1 don't mean to cut you off if you have more to say on the 
topic. 

2016-08-17 
11:02:31, Wed 

INBOX 

Re the email, resisted the urge to tell him, well, Randys briefing it 
may be an insider threat, he's getting that from somewhere. Will 
sort it out today. Thanks for the heads up.\n\nAlso got 1 

think to get Moffa an invite for all the IPC stuff going on with 
election threat. Talked with Moffa at length about it beforehand. 
Right now fbi being represented entirely by Cyber. asked 

CD1, and they punted to C3S. I'm certain didn't 

realize the broader implications. 

2016-08-17 
11:03:13, Wed 

INBOX 

The sigh to you getting it, not some stupid IPC process. 1 

2016-08-17 
11:10:37, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Totally. Moffa the right guy. Let me know if you need help. Easy fix 
by and 1. 

2016-08-17 
11:23:38, Wed 

INBOX 

No, 1 think it's fixed. As normal, we're our own worst enemy 

2016-08-17 

13:46:19, Wed 

INBOX 

Just met with oca team. All set. (No jinxes) 

2016-08-17 
20:46:41, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Hey, headed down to B2 now 

2016-08-17 
20:47:27, Wed 

INBOX 

K see you there 

2016-08-17 

20:47:28, Wed 

OUTBOX 

No, I'm not. Kortan just stopped me in the hall. 

2016-08-17 
20:49:27, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Ok leaving now 

2016-08-18 

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1 have svtc with Brits at 

10:46:05, Thu 


9, 302 party at 10, you have lunch with either your friend or me 
and at 1130, 1 have my 1 cd exec mtg, you have 

WH....suppose we could go at the end of the day, 1 can take 

2016-08-18 

19:45:21, Thu 

INBOX 

What time is deadline for state TPs to Jim? 

2016-08-18 

23:46:10, Thu 

INBOX 

Can you eras? Just clear email. That will be enough 

2016-08-18 

23:49:36, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 do wonder if they are waiting to get briefs for the email handling 
classified information mess to die down before they get the 
briefings. 

2016-08-18 
23:52:05, Thu 

INBOX 

1 can't see that. They're either worried about or don't really 

need them. 

2016-08-19 

00:53:28, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Ukraine Releases More Details on Payments for Trump Aide 
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Just sent you i think a good way for 


to proceed. 



Should I forward leak article to baker and rybicki?The Powell stuff 

was in her 302 an d Ihm, rig ht? Did we turn over his 302? _ 

Sure, but note that odd sourcing. It was in her 302; I'd want to 
double check if we turned over his 302, though I'm almost certain 
we did.\n\nAnd I'd bet the unnamed source is almost certainly 
Powell. _ 


I'm just going to forward your email, so the sourcing ref is in there. 


Sorry 1 have 20 minutes to get my shit together for dni 


Shouldn't take that log. Let me pull data, should take 10 minutes 


Good side effect of briefing this a million times. 


Might skip prep, we'll see. How'd it go? 


Ooh god I love that answer :)\n\nReally well. He's calling D, I left 

me ssage for Rybicki. Will call you when I get back... _ 

Ok, I REALLY love that answer \U0001f636 

Why calling D? To say you guys are awesome? Get your thoughts? 

Just got to hq 



Where’s this coming from?\n\nFirst on CNN: Feds investigate 
Manafort firm as part of Ukraine probe - 

CNNPolitics.com\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/politics/paul- 

manafort-donald-trump-ukraine/index.html 


Yeah, don’t know. Heard or saw something about it yesterday too. 
At wrap Tues or Wed I think. 

Oh weii. 

And thanks for forwarding the other email. I'm disappointed that 
Jon and I don't have the opportunity to input, where 

ind Jason do, but I'm letting go and not worrying about 
it or letting it bother me. Bill has not forwarded, but I think he may 
assume that since 80 people are on the distro, we got it.\n\nl'm 
angriestfor because of what and didw/r/ther 

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And a favor, please - to the extent there are follow on relevant 
Kendall/MYE emails (and there may not be), please forward if 
appropriate. Bill has told Jon and me that he isn't typically reading 
them, and is relying on us to flag any issue he needs to weigh in on. 
Given the large distro of Jim's emails, I'm willing to bet he doesn't 
notice we're not on there. 1 will discuss with him next week as well. 

Thanks . 

2016-08-20 

INBOX 

Ion 

11:47:50, Sat 


and Bill and 1 had a group rant about these.' 

2016-08-21 

20:38:37, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Dude, 1 bcc'ed. But oh well. 

1 

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That's why 1 went to you and 

2016-08-22 

16:57:10, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Meeting is at 1:15 now. 

2016-08-22 

17:04:49, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Going to go talk to low. 

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1 prefer ) 

2016-08-23 

01:03:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

reading the IG report. It's really dry... 

2016-08-23 

01:04:53, Tue 

INBOX 

Eep. Yeah, that's pretty terrible. Put that trash down.;) 

mi 

OUTBOX 

1 can't. This week is going to be terrible. 1 need to get crap done 
where 1 can... 

2016-08-23 

23:37:59, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey I'm not going to that training tomorrow, 1 will hit a later 

2016-08-24 
21:54:32, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Good thing you skipped the implicit bias training, it was apparently 
AWFUL. So bad, folks are likely to go back to the DAG to object to 
it. 

2016-08-24 

22:28:45, Wed 

INBOX 

Hi. Still going with Bill. Stepped out to tell you....\U0001f636 

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A re 


23:36:46, Wed 


we in thunderdome tonorrow? Have audio/video for briefing. Can 
get in there 15 min early with AV guy? Coordinate thru 

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We can be wherever you want. Thunder dome is fine. Early is fine. 
He should be able to log on to his fbi net terminal and do whatever 
he needs. I'll send an email to low letting her know we will 

need a/V. 

2016-08-24 
23:38:57, Wed 

INBOX 

No. Not worth it.\n\nYep! Everyone loves a video, even if the subj 
is wildly uncooperative. Great tech work, shows competence and 
urgency. Plus is kind of a douche. 

2016-08-24 

23:39:37, Wed 

INBOX 

Thank you\n\nWe can do video in his office but figure that would 
be weird/awkward.... 

2016-08-24 

23:40:09, Wed i 

INBOX 

Am 1 still buying you and unch tomorrow? 

\U0001f60a\U0001f60a\U0001f60a 

2016-08-24 1 

23:40:34, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Will probably depend on his schedule. It's his only day in the office. 

2016-08-25 
14:08:20, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'm here. Also, let's meet at my ofc at 1130 for lunch. is still 

good. 

2016-08-25 

14:39:47, Thu 

INBOX 

No to , have been talking to Legat Canberra 

2016-08-25 
19:30:56, Thu 

INBOX 

What do you have after brief? ^000^636 

2016-08-25 
19:33:14, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Oh crap. I'm sorry. Been in back to back mtgs. Have a mtg with 
kerry sleeper now. 

2016-08-26 

02:13:49, Fri 

INBOX 

It's ok. It's nothing compared to your night. \n\nAnd Gowdy is 
really starting to p*ss me off. I'm going to need to stop reading the 

news. 

2016-08-26 

15:29:45, Fri 

OUTBOX 

302 and Ihm going to be further delayed. 1 love my job. 

2016-08-26 

15:34:48, Fri 

INBOX 

Sweet Jesus. OGA? 

2016-08-26 

16:25:27, Fri 

OUTBOX 

And just had an hour long conversation with re nsls. It's 

reallv never going to end... 

2016-08-26 

16:41:51, Fri 

INBOX 

What?Trnasparency crap? 

2016-08-26 

16:42:07, Fri 

i INBOX 

Good lord. Talk about an unexpected and unpleasant blast from 
the past.... 

2016-08-26 

16:42:40, Fri 

INBOX 

Just went to a southern Virginia Walmart. 1 could SMELL the Trump 
support.... 

2016-08-26 

16:54:18, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yup. Out to lunch with We both hate everyone and 

everything. 

2016-08-26 
17:02:52, Fri 

INBOX 

I want to be there and hate with you, or charm you back to happy 
\n\nLooked for the two trump yard signs 1 saw on the way out to 
take a picture, but couldn't see them 


2016-08-26 OUTBOX Going to another meeting. Glad you're having a good time. 

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20:49:14, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Actually, Jon Moffa just made me chuckle. First time all day. 1 like 
that kid. 

2016-08-26 

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Just riffing on the hot mess that is our country. 

2016-08-26 

20:52:28, Fri 

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Yeah....it's scary real down here 

2016-08-27 
20:07:01, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Have to go into work tomorrow afternoon. Have a which has 
changed in scope that I need to write prep for. \U0001f612 

2016-08-27 

20:18:46, Sat 

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God that sucks. Are you only backup? 

2016-08-27 

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INBOX 

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Well that stinks. You've been working plenty hard...\U 0001 f 615 

Yeah well. 


How much different is it (the scope)? 


And \U0001f621. not so good at updating. Sent something I 

already did, just much later. CYD clearly leading this (which is fine), 
but don’t send half the info - an hour late - the AD already has from 

CYD. _ 

I'll send separately to Andy, though I'm sure Bill will brief it at a 
morning meeting. \U0001f612\n\nA Powerful Russian Weapon: 

The Spread of False Stories http://nyti.ms/2bR9n3c _ 

It was just an nyt article to you and jon about Russia. 


Thanks a lot. This will definitely come up tomorrow morning too... 


Thanks. Hopefully without printed handouts.;) There was another 
one about the 

I AM DONE WITH MYE!!!!\U0001f621\U0001f621 


Yup. And you're only getting about 70% of it compared to the rest 
of us. 


Np. s in (not sure why I'm doing this then, but whatever). Just 

let me know when you are co min g back up. _ 

\U0001f621 re being in...your weekend and morning could 

have been nicer. ..almost to Peets 


Yeah, but she offered to put the binder together so I'll take that. 

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\u263a good. I like her, I think. Is she still officially Steinbach's staff, 
or ONP, or DO generally? 


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11:27:02, Mon 

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Entering turnstiles now. Your office? 

2016-08-29 

22:28:55, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Dude you there? 

2016-08-29 

INBOX 

In answer to your question, was in wrap. 

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2016-08-29 OUTBOX Fun! 

22:47:41, Mon _ 

2016-08-29 OUTBOX I need to call Jason first 


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2016-08-30 

08:25:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Struggling with he role of the new job. 1 get what you were saying 
about "don't be^^|" where everything has to go through me, 
but 1 don't know if that's entirely right. 1 better know what's going 
on in my branch. 1 better know more about what's going on under 
me than my AD, and surely more than the EAD or you or Andy or 
the D.\n\nl get find people who can do a good job and let them do 
it. Completely agree. It's figuring out the right amount to be 
involved to track and guide, provide input. 

2016-08-30 

08:55:17, Tue 

OUTBOX 

\n\nAnd let's talk about the DAD thing later. All I'm saying is worry 
and be present for the things that matter, not the things that don't. 

2016-08-30 
08:59:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

My point is, that brief went super well. So even if you would have 
phrased a fee things differently, and even of you would have liked 
to have known every fact before hand, it was superbly. And you 
not knowing was very much a function of your not being here on 
Friday. So all I'm saying is focus on the things that matter. 

2016-08-30 

09:02:32, Tue 

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1 guess. Still not entirely comfortable with it. Will figure that out, 
there's an element of Jon in there that 1 also need to clarify what 

I'm feeling, what's reasonable, what's not. \n\nThanks for being 
there to hear all my doubt and concern 

2016-08-30 

09:03:18, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Last thing: 1 get knowing more than the guy above you, but Mike 
knew far far less than even Andy and 1 knew about it. Hell, he didn't 
even know we were having the brief. And I completely under how 
frustrated that must have made him, but ultimately, the brief was 
no worse off. Again, it's the focus on the things that matter. 

2016-08-30 

09:03:19, Tue 

INBOX 

Let me ask you this. How many times had you heard that brief, 
between prep for that and and otherwise? 

2016-08-30 

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No, you heard the prebrief for to Andy, then the one to the D. 
Then you heard the prebrief on Fri to Andy, then this one. You've 
heard it at least FOUR times. 



Here we go:\nHarry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in 
U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. 

Inquiry\n\nhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/politics/har 

rv-reid-russia-tampering-election-fbi.html 


But Mr. Reid argued that the connections between some of Donald 
J. Trump\u2019s former and current advisers and the Russian 
leadership should, by itself, prompt an investigation. He referred 
indirectly in his letter to a speech given in Russia by one Trump 
adviser, Carter Page, a consultant and investor in the energy giant 
Gazprom, who criticized American sanctions policy toward 
Russia.\n\n\u201cTrump and his people keep saying the election is 
ngged,\u201d Mr. Reid said. \u201cWhy is he saying that? Because 
people are telling him the election can be messed with.\u201d Mr. 
Trump\u2019s advisers say they are concerned that unnamed 
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2016-08-30 

09:46:29, Tue 

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Bill didn't mention it\U0001f612 

2016-08-30 

09:51:55, Tue 

INBOX 

And holy cow, let me send you the Reid letter! 

2016-08-30 
11:10:10, Tue 

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Have a meeting with turgal about getting iPhone in a day or so 

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Oh hot damn. I'm happy to pilot that. ...\n\nWe get around our 
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No, he's proposing that we just stop following them. Apparently 
the requirement to capture texts came from omb, but we're the 
only org (I'm told) who is following that rule. His point is, if no one 
else is doing it whv should we. 

2016-08-30 

11:29:25, Tue 

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Helps that Dd had a terrible time with his phone which 

made him concerned for our folks all over the place. 

2016-08-30 

11:29:54, Tue 

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These phones suck as much as they do because of the program we 
use to capture texts, full stop. 

2016-08-30 

11:34:03, Tue 

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No doubt. 

2016-08-30 

11:34:34, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm not convinced, short of OPR, that text capture capability really 
deters anything. 

2016-08-30 

11:34:58, Tue 

INBOX 

If 1 want to copy/take classified, I'm sure as hell not going to do it 
on this phone. 

2016-08-30 

11:36:40, Tue 

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1 thought it was more from a discovery perspective. 

2016-08-30 

11:39:49, Tue 

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Probably. 5o just make a rule no texts of a discoverable nature. 
\n\nl_ike you said, what are CBP, DEA, others doing? 

2016-08-30 
11:57:27, Tue 

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I'm told - though 1 have seen - that there is an IG report that says 
everyone is failing. But no one has changed anything, so why not 
iust join in the failure. 

2016-08-30 

11:58:42, Tue 

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Well, if our mission is degraded, that's the reason to do it. Plus, 
these phones suck 

2016-08-30 
12:55:38, Tue 

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Call my please? 

2016-08-30 

16:17:38, Tue 

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Call desk? 

2016-08-30 

16:29:43, Tue 

INBOX 

You got the card? 

2016-08-30 

16:30:03, Tue 

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Yes. In the binder already. 

2016-08-30 

16:30:53, Tue 

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Wow. You're good.:) 

2016-08-31 
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VOM-IT. VOMIT. Vomit vomit vomit.\n\nEdward Snowden\u2019s 
Long, Strange Journey to Hollywood http://nyti.ms/2c4Kz50 

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00:34:55, Wed 

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1 told him 1 thought it might be harder for me than for him, but that 
that was ok. \U0001f636\n\nl will not read about Snowden 
tonight. 

2016-08-31 

01:03:16, Wed 

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And seriously, don't read the article, but jesus, V-O-M-l-T. 

2016-08-31 
01:06:15, Wed 

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Believe me, I'm not touching that article. Maybe CYD can take that 
case, too... 

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Did you ever look at this? It's incredibly powerful. And really, really 
depressing. \n\nAt Least 110 Republican Leaders Won\u2019t Vote 
for Donald Trump. Here\u2019s When They Reached Their 

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And yeah, that article is pretty much guaranteed to get a response 
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How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the 
West\u2019s Secrets http://nyti.ms/2clqTlf 

2016-09-01 
01:24:07, Thu 

INBOX 

Had a long talk with Bill. Can we work talk tomorrow morning re 
same? 

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01:27:45, Thu 

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Bottom line Mike read Bill the riot act, said Andy yelled at him and 
DJ that "the teams aren't sharing info" and told them to fix it. 
5ounds like Mike and Randy want to get everyone together and yell 
at us, daily updates, and other silliness.\n\nl will relay much more 
detail when we talk. 

2016-09-01 
01:40:45, Thu 

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Ho boy. Andy said nothing to me except it went well. Makes me 
nervous that people think 1 was involved or at the meeting. 

2016-09-01 
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Bill wanted to know what generated it. Did he (Andy) get spun up 
with you? 

2016-09-01 

01:44:04, Thu 

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Let's def talk tomorrow AM. Bill will likely seek you out to talk. 

2016-09-01 

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I’ll give you more detail hete, or better on imsg, but far easier to 
relay with conversation. 

2016-09-01 

01:44:56, Thu 

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Here. Not hete. Hete sounds like gibberish. 

2016-09-01 

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Going to ask Eric who he told about my mtg with Andy. If not him, 
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Tried reaching out to Bill but didn't comnect 

2016-09-01 
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I sent an email to he and Randy asking to talk after morning 
meeting. No answer, but presumably will see them in a couple. 

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Good luck. Id just tell them what you told me. You're doing a good 
job, Lisa, \n\nl had more to say about what 1 think drives the 
perception. Mainly people want to identify external causes of 
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That means a lot of times it isn’t YOU, it's the position. 1 heard' 
grumbling about such things as soon as i was in a professional 
position to hear it, about and and and 

everyone in between.\n\nThis is no doubt a sh*tty drawback of 
vour iob. 

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Just did it. Mike S. didn't and hasn't said a word to me. Bill 
defended me, DJ said he understood Andy's frustration, Randy said 
nothing. 

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Good. Proud of Bill. 

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How are you feeling about it? 

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1 sent an email to Bill saying we had talked and you were going to 
call him. 

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1 just pulled them all together after the morning meeting. 

Steinbach obviously didn't have any interest in hearing what 1 had 
to say, but I figured 1 would just be further criticized if 1 excluded 
him. 

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I'm going to try to call Eric now, because of course he's not here 
because Andy's not here. Then 1 get to tell Andy and tell him what 1 
just said. 

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Hope it goes well. What are you going to say? Just what you told all 
of them? 

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Yes. Doing it now. 

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Yes. For a call? 

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If you can. Nothing major 

2016-09-01 

16:12:48, Thu 

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Hi. How you dping? 

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Fine. Spoke to Eric. Went okay. Something relevant to you, but can 
tell you later. 

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He have any insight? \n\nGopd? Bad? Neither? 

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16:34:53, Thu 

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Potentially bad. 

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No, he took what Steinbach said as truth, said it made sense once 
we spoke. Same old sh*t. 

2016-09-01 
16:37:23, Thu 

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What did Steinbach say? That Andy yelled at him? Or something 
else? 

2016-09-01 

16:37:31, Thu 

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1 can call later, too 

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Let's just talk later. It's not clear what he said, just some things that 
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Talk now? 

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Sorry, was in with Baker..1 can talk in 2. 

2016-09-01 

17:10:05, Thu 

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Sorry, can't now. 15 min? 

2016-09-01 

17:11:14, Thu 

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Baker ran into Steinbach, who complained about me. Steinbach 
and Coleman want to talk to Andy. 

2016-09-01 
17:22:13, Thu 

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F them. \U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\n\nCall 
you in 3 minutes 

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Believe me, no way 1 try and do that any time soon. \U0001f61e 

2016-09-01 

18:03:18, Thu 

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I'm sorry. And I’m frustrated, all on top of angry. 

2016-09-01 

18:03:32, Thu 

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You DO good work. 

2016-09-01 

18:04:19, Thu 

INBOX 

What did Jim recommend? Anything? 

2016-09-01 
18:07:23, Thu 

OUTBOX 

He doesn't know what to do, He honestly said he didn't know what 
to recommend. 

2016-09-01 
18:07:48, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Just got another call from quinn re MYE. Should 1 direct his call to 
Steinbach? 

2016-09-01 

18:08:03, Thu 

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Hah. No. 

2016-09-01 
18:09:05, Thu 

INBOX 

Thats who Bill told me to coordinate the 
thing with. Mike can take over "messaging" from 

here.... 

2016-09-01 
18:19:21, Thu 

INBOX 

Speaking of media, did you see the Wash Times quotes the OPA 
person shared with 1 (And why Would have thought one 

of us, us including Jon and Bill) 

2016-09-01 
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They worry me a bit 

2016-09-01 

18:19:33, Thu 

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1 have mye questions. No one is around. 

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Seriously, 1 can hop on eras and answer if 1 don’t have them off the 
top of my head. Or are they legal? 

2016-09-01 

18:20:59, Thu 

INBOX 

Can you talk to me and ask? 

2016-09-01 

18:21:03, Thu 

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No. Factual. Three more comments from the wash times. 

2016-09-01 

18:21:09, Thu 

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Yes, if you can talk. 

2016-09-01 
18:38:33, Thu 

INBOX 

Def get with for legal analysis. FRA contains language about 

each agency establishing record keeping procedures, and 1 vaguely 
recall it’s not clear that she was not in compliance with State's 
program at the time. 


INBOX 

Obviously if Andy is good with the statement, I'm not adding "me 
too"! 


OUTBOX 

Need to go to wrap. Because I'm so stupid and loyal 1 stayed here 
the same day so that Andy doesn't miss anything. 

2016-09-01 

23:16:49, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I can't. Now the Midyear production has to happen tomorrow. And 
you and and are all out. 

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What is production at this point? Certainly, that you can't do from 
home? 

2016-09-01 

23:26:00, Thu 

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Yeah, and get everyone the copies they need, and tell baker and 
doj and wait for all the hill notifications and tell the agency. I'm not 
giving State an advance warning. F them. 

2016-09-01 
23:42:11, Thu 

INBOX 

Email. They all have secretaries who can print for them. Jason 
handles the hill. It will ALL work out without you there 

2016-09-01 
23:51:41, Thu 

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And yes, totally. F State. No heads up 

2016-09-02 
01:00:54, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, well you can add that to the list of things that is never going 
to happen, like me gaining the respect of superiors simply because 
i work hard and do a good job. 

2016-09-02 
01:02:15, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm also incredibly disappointed in Bill. I would have hoped for 
some follow-up from him. Even just feedback or thanks or 
disagreement or something. But instead he just fell off the map. 


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\n\nl think Bill is busy and worried about 
H7462where he stands with his boss, and based on what Mike told 
him, with Andy. I'm not there to bounce things off of, so it makes it 
worse. That will be ok. From what you said, he was the only stand 
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01:26:56, Fri 

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You should take tomorrow off. 

2016-09-02 

01:27:30, Fri 

INBOX 

The Bu will continue as it has for decades. 

2016-09-02 

01:37:20, Fri 

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You know I'm not going to stay home. You can stop insisting. 

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01:38:32, Fri 

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And I'm not going to stop telling you that’s a bad decision, that the 
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today once already. In addition to the tri-weekly email I get from 

Laufman. _ 

Yup, I'll just do it from home. 


WHO IS THE SOMEONE ELSE?! 



Stop. Now you're just insulting me. 


YOU CAN STAY HOME 


Make the calls from home 

Tell everyone "call so-and-so and email me when you're done" 

Then call OPA and tell them to release 

And DOJ is a wild pain in the ass 

Not as bad as 5tate, but still 

Yes, George. I know we have to call counsel. 


Lisa, I don't think that's the right decision, and i dont agree. But 

having said that, and meaning it , I'll l eave it alone. _ 

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I don't know. I assumed it was WH 


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Forgot to show you this text from Eric, who is essentially blaming 
me for Andy's late hours:\n\nGood deal. 1 also want to stay a little 
tighter in the future so we can ensure Unity of effort for both Andy 
and the whole floor. This will also help in streamlining any after 
wrap discussions with Andy as 1 want to try and get him out the 
door at a more reasonable hour then what he has been doing. And 
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01:58:21, Fri 

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Andy's the DD. He's going to be late. You've got nothing to do with 
it. \U0001f612 

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Exactly. No. Maybe it will allow him to understand the depth of 
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Which I'm fine with. So just sit down with us after wrap. But don’t 
make more goddamn work for me. 


Yeah I’m not sure what he thinks he's accomplishing other than 
understanding what you're doing. At which point he'll say (if he’s 
smart), oh, wow, that's a lot, and then let you go. After wasting 
your time. 


Checkout my 9:30 mtg on the 7th 


I can tell you why you're having that meeting. 


It's not what you think. 



Yes, be potus wants to know everything we are doing. 


I'm sure an honest answer will come out of that 

meeting....\U0001f612 _ 

never knocks on the door. It's kind of weird.\n\nWhat are 
you doing? Why are you gone so much? God! 
\U0001 f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d\U0001f61d 
Thoughts on email? Maybe just send her a copy of FOIA? 

There's more to discuss. Don't feel like typing. 


Work call after lunch? I also have 5 now before food arrives 


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INBOX 

You saw the byline, right? 

2016-09-02 

18:07:01, Fri 

OUTBOX 

It helps that the Director and Deputy really hate these phones too. 
And really love their personal iphones. 

2016-09-02 

18:09:05, Fri 

INBOX 

Now if Tim Cook would only fall off the face of the earth 

2016-09-02 
20:57:43, Fri 

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Def still up for coming in Sun to work magic. \n\nAnd 1 mean that 
work-wise, I'm really excited about writing it into his 
language.\n\n\U0001f60b\U0001f636 

2016-09-02 
22:08:19, Fri 

INBOX 

1 love our Director 

2016-09-02 
22:08:40, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 know. 1 do too. 

2016-09-02 

22:10:00, Fri 

OUTBOX 

You obviously did not get a hold of Bill. 

2016-09-02 

22:10:42, Fri 

INBOX 

What? More? He didn't send whatever it was to me. Please 

forward? 

2016-09-02 

22:10:58, Fri 

INBOX 

And no, 1 didn't. No office answer, no cell. 

2016-09-02 

22:11:15, Fri 

OUTBOX 

What were you talking about then? 

2016-09-02 
22:11:52, Fri 

OUTBOX 

The Grassley email you meant, right? 1 did too. 

2016-09-02 

22:12:35, Fri 

OUTBOX 

If he doesn't call tonight 1 would freaking call SIOC and them 
connect you to his home. 

2016-09-02 

OUTBOX 

Please tell me this absence means you're talking to Bill... 


22:39:45, Fri 


2016-09-02 
22:40:26, Fri 

INBOX 

Yes. Just got done talking with him. Talk? is here so will be work 

2016-09-02 
22:42:21, Fri 

OUTBOX 

No. Please tell me 

he has relaxed 

2016-09-02 

22:45:04, Fri 

INBOX 

Yes. Call for data came at wrap (jr and bowdich) for desire for D to 
have data to chew on.\n\nHe also talked about your meeting with 
everyone to try and clear air. Remind me, though nothing really 
there to reDort 

2016-09-02 

22:48:53, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Got it. But we are still writing the op ed, yes? 

2016-09-02 
22:51:05, Fri 

INBOX 

Yes, -ish. He said too much data, would be good to identify the key 
pieces of data and frame it in an argument, but not to spend "too 
much time on the opening or closing." 1 told him we were too much 
of perfectionists to not do all of it. 

2016-09-03 

00:28:51, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Gotta say, most of the coverage has been quite favorable. 

\n\nF.B.I. Papers Offer Closer Look at Hillary Clinton Email Inquiry 
http://nvti.ms/2cfM00m 

2016-09-03 

00:29:15, Sat 

OUTBOX 

And crap, we should have told the agents/analysts that the docs 
were coming out today. \U0001f615 


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2016-09-03 INBOX I did tell them 

00:51:32, Sat _ 

2016-09-03 INBOX That nyt article was pretty good 

01:28:30, Sat _ 

2016-09-03 INBOX This was also good. Probably what in would have noted, 

01:30:05, Sat too:\nhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/us/politics/6-things- 



2016-09-04 INBOX I told him I may drive in 

15:53:13, Sun I__ 

2016-09-05 I OUTBOX An article to share: Intelligence community investigating covert 

10:50:01, Mon Russian influence operations in the United States\nlntelligence 

community investigating covert Russian influence operations in the 
United States\nhttp://wapo.st/2c0UA2H 



INBOX 

This is the one was taking about 1 think 

2016-09-05 
10:52:37, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yup. It is very well sourced. 100% authorized. 

2016-09-05 

10:54:03, Mon 

'INBOX 

Doesn't really look like it 

2016-09-05 

10:54:26, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Not really. 

2016-09-05 

11:02:09, Mon 

INBOX 

Just read the article. We say a lot of the same things. 1 guess that's 
ok. . 

2016-09-05 

11:02:42, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, but that's why ours is going to need to be more folksy. So it's 
not like a news article. 

2016-09-05 

11:02:48, Mon 

INBOX 

1 have really no faith the administration will deal with it effectively 

2016-09-05 

11:02:56, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Nope. You shouldn't. 

2016-09-05 

11:19:54, Mon 

INBOX 

1 am losing my mind because 1 can't get my stupid laptop to 
connect to FBINET. 1 got up early to see the draft you giys worked 
on but no dice. Want to spike it in the street. 

2016-09-05 

11:50:03, Mon 

INBOX 

Sorry. I'm going to try in a bit. Came up with a lot of little edits 

2016-09-05 
11:55:42, Mon 

INBOX 

1 can't go in today so if 1 can't connect in the next hour or so I'll just 
have to see it tomorrow. Obviously fire it off to the AD though. I'm 
sure it's great. Won't take my password for some reason... 

2016-09-05 

INBOX 

After inputting edits in eras.\n\nLet me 

14:08:22, Mon 


know when you leave. 

2016-09-05 

14:11:20, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Left 


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2016-09-05 

15:10:03, Mon 

INBOX iJust sent op-ed to Bill, cc:ed both of you. 

2016-09-05 

22:50:03, Mon 

INBOX 

And ooh, you're at ODNI on Wed. LX? H8013Me too! From 11:30 
till 2:00. I’ll give you a ride! 

2016-09-05 

22:58:18, Mon 

OUTBOX 

No, only if trisha wants me to, and I'm sure she won't. 

2016-09-05 

23:08:07, Mon 

INBOX : Can you just go? Or go to my thing then go to the other one since 

you're there? 

2016-09-05 

23:19:47, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'm sure that would cause some turmoil (why is Lisa there and not 
nslb...) 

2016-09-05 

INBOX 


23:21:37, Mon 



2016-09-05 

23:27:36, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yes! About what? 

2016-09-05 

23:39:35, Mon 

INBOX 

Gotta figure that out tomorrow. Insider threat perhaps. Maybe 
Electoral shenanigans. I'm between Clapper and Evanina and 
another person or two 

2016-09-06 

11:39:31, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Stupid ass and 1 and 1 don't think she was successful. 

\UQ001f621 

2016-09-06 

11:40:41, Tue 

OUTBOX 

At clearing the air. 

\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 

2016-09-06 

11:43:02, Tue 

INBOX 

Got it. You going to talk to him? You said at the time he backed you 
up. 

2016-09-06 

11:43:37, Tue 

INBOX 

But might be better to let it go for now? 

2016-09-06 

11:44:00, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He just didn't leave me out the hanging, but he didn't say, thanks 
for explaining or anything like that. 

2016-09-06 

11:44:05, Tue 

INBOX 

And 1 know \U0001f614 

2016-09-06 
11:46:02, Tue 

INBOX 

How about go to him, say, you know how you said you appreciated 
it when 1 gave you honest feedback, that that's rare? I’d appreciate 
the same from you. What do you think about how last week 
unfolded? 

2016-09-06 
11:46:19, Tue 

INBOX 

But you CANNOT burn me as a source... 

2016-09-06 
11:47:19, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And I'm far more pissed that after doing it, he didn't come to me 
separately and say thanks or I'm not sure you made any progress 
but thanks anyway or ANYTHING. 

2016-09-06 

11:47:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Nope. F it. He wants to lose an ally, so be it. 

2016-09-06 

11:59:41, Tue 

INBOX 

1 think he was feeling the results of Mike talking to him. Put 
yourself in his shoes, with his personality. Not saying he's right, but 
I'm saying he’s thoughtful and different from Mike and Randy. 
\n\nWhile I'd be angry, too, 1 wouldn't throw out an ally/work 
friendship over it._ 


2016-09-06 

INBOX 

He didn't sell you out. Just understand his personality and your 

12:00:11, Tue 


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2016-09-06 
12:20:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Maybe not. But if that's just "his personality" I'm sure not going to 
stick my neck out for him again. HE doesn't want the headache? 
Yeah, well 1 don't either. 

2016-09-06 

12:28:42, Tue 

INBOX 

Look, 1 get it. I'm as frustrated as you are. 1 can understand not 
sticking your neck out, too. 

2016-09-06 
12:29:05, Tue 

INBOX 

A different frustration -1 didn't get burned like you did 

2016-09-06 

OUTBOX 

And good^J is still not back from 

13:19:37, Tue 


2016-09-06 

13:51:23, Tue 

INBOX 


2016-09-06 

INBOX 


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2016-09-06 

21:01:58, Tue 

INBOX 

Hi..Funny (not haha) convo with Nflike. Call me when you're done. 
And 1 have no expectation my wrap will be done before 6, so if you 
can get the hell out of here before then, go. . 

2016-09-06 

22:19:40, Tue 

INBOX 

And gosh that was a fast wrap.... 

2016-09-06 

22:47:47, Tue 

INBOX 

And your silly TWO HOUR OVER LUNCH brief on Friday is Hill prep, 
guessing for Jason. You him Baker is out. Let 

me know if 1 can/should join. 


2016-09-06 
23:10:34, Tue 

INBOX 

Were your ears burning? Just talked about you for 30 minutes with 
Bill.\n\nln part about what he's going to say to Andy.\n\nWho he's 
trying to call right now. 

2016-09-06 

23:12:27, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Sigh. Thank you. Can you give me the quick recap? 

2016-09-06 

INBOX 

On a call? 


23:26:05, Tue 


2016-09-06 
23:26:30, Tue 

OUTBOX No. Yleeting Andy at 0700 to talk about 

operational stuff. Will Bill tell you of he connected with andy? Also, 
did he provide further info re how you came up? 

2016-09-06 

23:26:38, Tue 

INBOX 

Meaning, I'm driving, and it's hard for me to text that. 1 would be 
happy to tell you on the phone. 

2016-09-06 
23:27:00, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Got it, sorry, 1 can't for about 30. 

2016-09-06 

23:27:10, Tue 

INBOX 

1 don't think he will tonight. 

2016-09-06 

23:27:27, Tue 

INBOX 

He didn't (re me) 

2016-09-06 

23:28:02, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 will probably email bill and ask him if he'd be willing to tell me if 
they talk, just so 1 know what 1 am walking into. 

2016-09-06 

23:28:11, Tue 

INBOX 

Brought the topic up, but didn't specifically ask. A lot to talk about. 
Nothing earthshaking. Just a lot of detail. 

2016-09-06 

23:29:09, Tue 

INBOX 

1 think you'd be fine with that. Obviously don’t reference our 
talking about it. 

2016-09-06 

23:29:12, Tue 

INBOX 

He'd not you'd 


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2016-09-06 

23:29:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Of course. 1 presume a call later not worth it the trouble for you? 

2016-09-06 

23:30:08, Tue 

INBOX 

And I'm now more worried about me. Think Jon is fine 

2016-09-06 

23:31:01, Tue 

INBOX 

Depends, 

2016-09-06 

23:31:13, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You have nothing to worry about. They'll both be gone before your 
next job. AND they both like you. It's ME they don't like. 

2016-09-06 

23:31:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Is it detail i need to know before tomorrow? 

/ 

2016-09-06 

23:33:39, Tue 

INBOX 

A) then why you and Bill both getting by name mentions of me\nB) 
no. Only the fresher it is, the more detail. 

2016-09-06 

23:34:05, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm old and forgetful.;) 

2016-09-06 

23:55:58, Tue 

OUTBOX 

A) Pete, it's going to be fine. Don't make this something else to 
unnecessarily worry about. Your reputation precedes you, and the 

D and DD think you're great. Worry about those things that matter. 

2016-09-06 
23:58:08, Tue 

INBOX 

Sigh. I want to believe that but for my boss mentioning it to me. 

Just ignore that? 

2016-09-06 
23:58:53, Tue 

OUTBOX 

It's a mention about perception. Be aware of perception. 1 wouldn't 
worry further than that. 

2016-09-06 
23:59:51, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And uh yeah, your advice for me, even when you know I am in the 
line of fire, is always, f them. So... 

2016-09-07 
00:01:02, Wed 

INBOX 

You're leaving in 18 months. And you work directly for the DD. 

2016-09-07 
00:01:34, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 don’t have another job, and when he leaves 1 have no job. 

2016-09-07 

00:01:53, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I'm just saying if the advice is good enough for me... 

2016-09-07 

00:01:54, Wed 

INBOX 

1 also sometimes advise you to keep your head down ;) 

2016-09-07 
00:04:22, Wed 

INBOX 

1 appreciate what you're telling me. I'm saying advice for you and 
me may be slightly different. 1 am part of that white male agent 
hierarchy. Well below the DD.\n\nAnd i fully appreciate your 
advice to be aware of the perception and otherwise F them, keep 
working hard. 

2016-09-07 
00:05:32, Wed 

OUTBOX 

That white male hierarchy that NEVER eats its own. That pushes 
even idiots forward for promotion. 1 think you're going to be okay. 

2016-09-07 

INBOX 

Sigh. 

00:06:40, Wed 



2016-09-07 
00:09:17, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I don't know. 1 think 1 was feeling momentarily resentful at your 
worry. Yours is speculative and distant, mine is front and center 
and the in fact named problem. 

2016-09-07 

00:09:30, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Probably not bring fair to you, 1 realize. 


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2016-09-07 
00:13:21, Wed 

INBOX 

Lisa. It's not. 1 was feeling the same resentment. My boss told me 
specifically 1 was mentioned, including in the context of Pete going 
around the chain of command to get Lisa to feed something to 
Andy. 1 did not make that up. 1 am not exaggerating that. Thus isn't 
ALL you, nor is it a zero sum game, not is it a comparison or 
competition. But simply waving my concerns aside, saying "it's ail 

2016-09-07 
01:18:30, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh. And prepping Bill tonight to call Andy. Tack that somewhere in 
the second sentence, above. 

2016-09-07 

01:44:43, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And don't conflate my email to Bill with my gratitude for you. 

That's totally unfair. 

2016-09-07 

OUTBOX 


01:55:45, Wed 


I'm meeting andy at 0700. 

2016-09-07 

02:44:54, Wed 

INBOX 

Btw, realistically you think you'll have time to talk or coffee 
tomorrow am? Guessing you'll go straight from 7:00 into morning 
Intel brief, right? 

2016-09-07 
11:37:22, Wed 

INBOX 

Need to talk to you on work issue 

2016-09-07 

11:37:30, Wed 

INBOX 

We've got time 

2016-09-07 

11:37:46, Wed 

INBOX 

1 can talk work on the way there and back 

2016-09-07 

11:37:47, Wed 

OUTBOX 

K. One sec. Will call from ofc phone. 

2016-09-07 

11:37:56, Wed 

OUTBOX 

K. Let's go. 

2016-09-07 
11:38:06, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Meet you in ctyard 

2016-09-07 

11:38:48, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Let's just do Starbucks. There's not time. 

2016-09-07 

12:45:33, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey just stopped by your office. 

\U0001f60a 

2016-09-07 
12:50:40, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Sorry, went to see 

2016 09-07 
12:50:47, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Headed back now 

2016-09-07 

12:57:11, Wed 

INBOX 

K will swing by now on way to Jason's 

2016-09-07 

13:00:00, Wed 

INBOX 

At Jason's 

2016-09-07 

13:00:11, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Okay, be right there. 


2016-09-07 

14:24:10, Wed 

INBOX 

Hoooo boy. Call me 

2016-09-07 

15:21:42, Wed 

INBOX 

Finishing SC mtg, 5 min 

2016-09-07 

19:49:00, Wed 

fNBOX 

Just got done with Castor. 


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2016-09-07 
22:15:34, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Andy not going to reply all. 1 am furious. Don't call back. 

2016-09-07 

22:23:26, Wed 

OUTBOX 

So, do 1 call him and explain why not responding by email entirely 
undermines me? 

2016-09-07 

23:11:54, Wed 


Def don't email. Talk to him. NOT tonight 

2016-09-07 
23:12:26, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I'm not unless he calls. I'm actually not going by his ofc unless he 
calls. 

2016-09-07 
23:16:20, Wed 

OUTBOX 

But I am absolutely enraged. He is purposefully choosing to save 
Mike and Dave's face at my expense. 

2016-09-07 
23:39:22, Wed 

INBOX 

Lis. You must talk to him. But don't do it tonight. 

BUM 

INBOX 

I'm sorry. You must be livid 

2016-09-07 

23:40:10, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 am. 1 texted him this:\n\nl would like to speak to you before you 
talk to Steinbach and Bowdich about their email. 

2016-09-07 
23:40:47, Wed 

OUTBOX 

So it doesn't have to be tonight; we'll see what he says. 

2016-09-08 
00:19:34, Thu 

INBOX 

Of course let me know how it goes with JB. And if he's not there, 
call me \U0001f614\u2764 

2016-09-08 
00:31:52, Thu 

INBOX 

Great. Now i have daily meetings, twice a day either CyD. An hour 
long each. 930-1030 and 4-5. 

2016-09-08 
00:32:35, Thu 

INBOX 

Because their division is in incapable of pulling its head out of its 
ass. 1 don't have two hours a day to give to this b*******. 

DMtli 

INBOX 

Now I'm livid....1 do not have two hours a day to throw at this. 

2016-09-08 

00:45:08, Thu 

OUTBOX 

You should be. That's an utter waste. 

2016-09-08 

00:45:33, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Twice a day. That is so outrageous. 

2016-09-08 
00:46:31, Thu 

INBOX 

And inexplicably, no one, not even after the director's comments 
today, is willing to say: cyber is f***** up. Cyber needs to fix itself. 
Cybers way of doing business is unacceptable. 

2016-09-08 

00:47:00, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Well that's the profile in courage of you EAD. 

2016-09-08 
00:47:05, Thu 

INBOX 

Instead, everybody has to be a little wrong, everybody has to be a 
little right. Randy and Mike bear nothing. They grind their divisions 
under them to a halt. 

2016-09-08 
00:48:38, Thu 

INBOX 

So instead, other stuff will drop. 1 hope Andy in the director happy. 

1 hope the opportunity cost to the FBI is worth it. 

2016-09-08 
01:18:21, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Sorry for the delay, was just on with . God, 1 see right through 

her... 

2016-09-08 

01:19:07, Thu 

INBOX 

What did she want \U0001f612 


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01:20:32, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Oh, just make sure 1 understood where things were on the 
paper, trying to talk Axelrod because he's "so angry" with how this 
came over to them. 1 told her not to put herself out too much, if 
Matt wants to call and veil at Andv it's fine. 

2016-09-08 

01:20:47, Thu 

OUTBOX 

It's all perception management. 

2016-09-08 

01:21:05, Thu 

INBOX 

And funny quote of the evening. " upon my arrival, 1 made the 
mistake of believing Americans understood irony." 

2016-09-08 
01:21:16, Thu 

INBOX 

1 really do love the British. 

2016-09-08 
01:21:30, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Was it a nice night? 

2016-09-08 
01:22:17, Thu 

INBOX 

Meh. Would have been far better with you there. 1 got to speak on 
behalf of Counter Intelligence Division, so it's good 1 was there. 

2016-09-08 
01:22:54, Thu 

OUTBOX 

That is good. 

2016-09-08 
01:25:03, Thu 

INBOX 

Did you get ahold of Baker? 

2016-09-08 
01:27:48, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I did. Good conversation, he gets it, offered to say something but 1 
said no. Said there was no question that it was a request from the 
DD. 

2016-09-08 

01:28:46, Thu 

INBOX 

He have any ideas how you should approach Andy? 

2016-09-08 

01:28:52, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Says 1 need to keep trying to cultivate a relationship with 

Steinbach, ask him to coffee or lunch or a drink. I'm not sure 1 will 
try that. 

2016-09-08 

01:29:26, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I’m just going to explain to andy why it is important to me that he 
respond via email. 

2016-09-08 

01:30:23, Thu 

INBOX 

out of here, right? 

2016-09-08 

01:30:51, Thu 

INBOX 

And while you may not be cultivating him, it's not like you're a jerk 
to him. 

2016-09-08 
01:31:29, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 told him I was thinking of stepping down if he does not. 

2016-09-08 
01:31:38, Thu 

OUTBOX 

He is, once he finds a job. 

2016-09-08 
01:32:20, Thu 

INBOX 

What did he say to that? 

2016-09-08 

01:32:24, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Baker doesn't think 1 should. I told him if he said no re the email, 
that 1 would come talk to him first. 

2016-09-08 
01:32:58, Thu 

OUTBOX 

But when 1 say that it means Andy doesn't really have my back, he 
understands why 1 would. And while I feel that way. 

2016-09-08 

01:34:05, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I’m very disappointed that Andy didn't reach out tonight. 

2016-09-08 

01:51:11, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Boy, this guy is a big R like you.\n\nFortress of Tedium: What 1 
Learned as a Substitute Teacher. http://nyti.ms/2crUNfV 


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2016-09-08 

01:52:52, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Andy just replied, said " Already spoke to S before 1 went to WH. 
Let's talk in the morning." \n\nl said okay. 

2016-09-08 

01:56:31, Thu 

INBOX 

was there tonight but 1 didn't get a chance to talk with him. 
Probably figured I'd be furious with him about the 

2016-09-08 

01:56:41, Thu 

INBOX 

He'd be right 

2016-09-08 

01:56:42, Thu 

INBOX 

Talked to John G 

2016-09-08 

01:57:23, Thu 

OUTBOX 

How's he doing? He's a decent human being. And not an 
egomaniac. 

2016-09-08 

01:57:24, Thu 

INBOX 

Mye notwithstanding, 1 really like him. Huge heart 

2016-09-08 
01:58:24, Thu 

INBOX 

And god, now 1 want to know what Andy said. Like Right Now. 


2016-09-08 
01:58:30, Thu 



2016-09-08 

INBOX 

. 

01:58:31, Thu 

. 


2016 09-08 

01:58:56, Thu 

INBOX 

He is a very decent human being. Told him we should get lunch. 

2016-09-08 
01:59:04, Thu 

OUTBOX 

He does. Bad judgment re mye, but genuinely good person. 

2016-09-08 
01:59:33, Thu 

INBOX 

Yep. Completely agree. And that makes him good in my book, 

2016-09-08 
02:00:53, Thu 

INBOX 

Good response from Andy, 1 think. Right?? 

2016-09-08 

02:00:54, Thu 

INBOX 


2016-09-08 
02:01:16, Thu 

INBOX 


2016-09-08 

02:01:18, Thu 

INBOX 

2016-09-08 
02:08:38, Thu 

INBOX 

1 think it's better than thay 

2016-09-08 

02:10:08, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 don't. He still did it to protect Steinbach. 

2016-09-08 

02:11:51, Thu 

INBOX 

Not emailing, you mean? 

2016-09-08 
02:12:49, Thu 

INBOX 

Wait and decide what you think after you talk. 

2016-09-08 

02:13:09, Thu 

INBOX 

Same as waiting until after Bill finally talked to you 

2016-09-08 
02:13:31, Thu 

INBOX 

1 think (god 1 pray) it will be better after you talk to Andy 

2016-09-08 
02:16:57, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Well if it's not I'll leave. Make the same amount of money, be more 
bored, but have a better life. 


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2016-09-08 
23:22:44, Thu 
2016-09-08 
23:24:02, Thu 



God I want to drive by with this report... 


It went extremely well. I am grateful for his call. 
He do it on his own or at Andy/JB's urging? 


2016-09-08 

23:24:10, Thu 

INBOX 

How long? 

2016-09-08 
23:24:40, Thu 

'OUTBOX 

I don't know. Am emailing/thanking/informing andy and Jb now. 

2016-09-08 

23:33:26, Thu 

INBOX 

Well gosh now 1 want to hear about it more than you want to see 
the report! 

2016-09-08 
23:38:01, Thu 

INBOX 

Ack!!!!! Details! Synopsis! 

2016-09-08 
23:38:31, Thu 

OUTBOX 

It was honestly very helpful. Not that he told me anything 1 didn't 
know (7th floor is political, perception matters, etc.}, but just him 
simply acknowledging the issues, the balancing that needs to 
happen, how you still won't please everyone gives me the room to 
include him more in the failings 1 report to Andy, etc. 

2016-09-08 

23:39:31, Thu 

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reached out to him. 1 love that kid. \U0001f636 

2016-09-08 
23:42:35, Thu 

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I am lucky. Thank you too, for your friendship. 1 couldn't survive 
any of this without you. 

2016-09-08 

23:45:29, Thu 

INBOX 

Not following entirely:\n gives me the room to include him more in 
the failings I report to Andy\n\nDoes that mean you trust him 
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Yes, potentially. It may never happen, but at least now he has 
opened the door to the possibility of that happening. I'll have to 
explain more tomorrow, unless you can talk quickly now. 

2016-09-09 

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Thank you. \U0001f636 Jon sent a text checking in, made me 

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realize he and Bill should know. 

2016-09-09 

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2016-09-09 

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Aaron wants to get coffee at 0730 this weekend. 

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2016-09-09 

01:02:27, Fri 

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I'd like to see Aaron with you \U0001f636 

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^■ 

2016-09-09 

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Matt Laurer's an idiot 

02:19:02, Fri 


\nhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/opinion/a-debate- 

disaster-waiting-to-happen.html 

2016-09-09 

INBOX 

Glad things 

02:39:00, Fri 


worked out with you, Andy and Mike \u263a 

2016-09-09 
11:52:19, Fri 

OUTBOX 

It was. I'm glad mye didn't start up until the end of summer. 

2016-09-09 

OUTBOX 

You need to show me that report that told you 

17:23:08, Fri 


about yesterday! 

2016-09-09 

INBOX 

Ah yes. Standby let me get it 

17:34:32, Fri 


* 

2016-09-09 

17:34:58, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Sweet. might be in here when you come. Just knock. 

2016-09-09 

18:31:04, Fri 

INBOX 

1 need my crimes report. I'll stop by on the. Way to QPA at 315 

2016-09-09 

20:26:29, Fri " 

OUTBOX 

1 want to hear about too! 

2016-09-09 

20:27:13, Fri 

INBOX 

1 don't tell Bill what Castor said, right? 

2016-09-09 

OUTBOX 

Let me. 

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00:25:43, Sat 

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No prob. Just calling to say 1 called jason, told him everything, 
including having a call without him. He totally agreed. Told him 1 
would draft TPs this weekend too, he's grateful for it. 

2016-09-10 
00:27:32, Sat 

INBOX 

\u263a thanks. I'd like to help, obviously 

2016-09-10 
00:28:24, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I'd appreciate it, obviously. Going to send an email to mye core 
team to tell them I'll draft TPs this weekend, but will likeiy need a 
look Sunday night. 

2016-09-10 
00:30:29, Sat 

INBOX 

\u263a5till thinking to draft on Sunday? 



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Yeah, think so. Maybe Saturday night. We'll see. 


If sets up the call the real test will be whether he sends 

me the call in info. I am angry, Pete. \U0001f621 _ 

Just ask Andy, no? The problem is no one on that call has 
knowledge of the case anywhere near you. Face was 

utterly absent for it. Not saying he shouldn't be there, but include 
Bill. And, obviouslv. vou. 


Oh, I'll get the info. I just have a feeling I'm going to be left off 
"accidentally." 


God, I'm really in a bad mood now. 



2016-09-10 

11:58:56, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Re I'm not sure he has the intellectual curiosity to call in. 

How's that for an insult? 

2016-09-10 

12:16:16, Sat 

INBOX 

And re my last. I'd add that at this point the questions at this point 
are organizational risk best answered by people with thoughtful 
smarts. And I'm not sure about the group on there, either. 


B) thing is, there are VERY inflammatory things in the 302s we 
didn't turn over to Congress (because they weren't relevant to 
understanding the focus of the investigation) that are going to 
come out in FOIA and absolutely inflame Congress. I'm sure Jim 
and Trisha and Dave and Mike are all considering how things like 
that play out as they talk amongst themselves. 


2016-09-10 

12:37:38, Sat 

INBOX 

You never told me what she said; when 1 asked you pushed back a 
little. 

2016-09-10 

12:37:47, Sat 

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I'll tell you. Just didn't feel like talking about it that time you 
brought it up 

B) and as they prep Jason. Who is going to be the first person they 
call. That settles it - I'm calling him, of at least giving you material 
so he's aware of it (which I GUARANTEE didn't come up yesterday). 


Want to imsg it to me, or want to do it in person? 


It's not that sensitive. 


Ok. You can imsg just for convenience of typing, too, if you want. 


I know the material. The :tuff, right? I know it. 


2016-09-10 

12:45:16, Sat 

OUTBOX 

And the state shenanigans stuff. Anything else? 

2016-09-10 

12:48:26, Sat 

INBOX 

Certainly those. Probably others. All the laptops and media 
voluntarily turned over to us by the attorneys ("why didnt you ever 
serach this"? "Why isnt this relevant to our oversight 
responsibilities"?) 1 want to go read through the ones we didn’t 
produce. The point is Reps will try and spin and attack whatever is 
in the ones not initially turned over to them. 

2016-09-10 

12:53:04, Sat 

INBOX 

Re 302s, didn't search the laptops given to us voluntarily by various 
attorneys. 

2016-09-10 

12:53:49, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Why not? Decision that it was unlikely to contain info relevant to 
our case in like of time constraints? 

2016-09-10 

12:55:59, Sat 

INBOX 

They would not consent and we did not have probable cause to get 
on them. 

2016-09-10 
12:56:47, Sat 

INBOX 

1 will go review the 302s we didn't turn over and send thoughts to 
everyone except the 0 corridor recipients. You or Trisha or Jason 
can mention to them. 

2016-09-10 

12:57:00, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Oh well that's totally defendable. Why did they give them to 
us?\n\nYeah, but 1 think that was the context in which it was 
meant. I.e., like who sucks more, me or her? 

2016-09-10 

12:57:21, Sat 

OUTBOX 

it's not worth your time. I've got it. Truly. 

2016-09-10 

12:57:48, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I'll put a placeholder in - there may be more unsavory facts, these 
are the ones I'm aware of. 

2016-09-10 
12:58:32, Sat 

INBOX 

Because they had classified on them. Classified we already had in 
our possession. \n\nLisa, it's a mistake not to have someone from 
the investigative team not quietly back benching on these 
conversations. 1 know you may not disagree. 1 will prep you as best 

1 can. 

2016-09-10 

12:59:27, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 know that! What am 1 supposed to do about it?! 

2016-09-10 

13:00:10, Sat 

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Call for one minute? Question about the laptops. 



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Did you ever call the State IG re the 


allegations? 


Can you be on the call at noon? I asked Andy, he said it was a good 
idea. 


Crap about IG or| 
\U0001f621 


Frankly, both. Both my fault. 


2016-09-10 
14:14:35, Sat 


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Okay, thanks. Sent you call in info already. 


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IG. I know is just an oversight. Just not great given timing. 


As long as we get it to them before it comes out in FOIA I think 
we're ok. I will call him on Mon. Heck, I can leave a vm this 
weekend. 


2016-09-10 

14:16:26, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No, Monday is fine. 

2016-09-10 

14:16:35, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I'll try to set a reminder for us. 

2016-09-10 
14:24:23, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Maybe it's for Bowdich. Regardless. 

2016-09-10 

14:45:06, Sat 

INBOX 

Re Bowdich, I’d just let it go. Andy's going to be out for a bit so it'll 
get worse before it ets better. As 1 think about it, I don't know that 
I'd talk to him. 

2016-09-10 

15:33:13, Sat 

INBOX 

What?!?!?!?\n"So I'm going to ask Bill to fill in for me" 

2016-09-10 

15:35:54, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yup. It's a small wonder that 1 don't rely on the EADs... 

2016-09-10 

17:19:25, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 am going to go tomorrow morning after Aaron. Probably 9 am or 
so. Going to cancel with Would be great if you can be 

there, but no worries if not. 

2016-09-10 

19:32:11, Sat 

INBOX 

You want to answer Jason? 

2016-09-10 

19:36:59, Sat 

INBOX 

Hmm. Ok. \n\nWas thinking of telling Jason his points were raised 
and happy to discuss. Don't want to get into a long written 
description of thought process on email and particularly on 
Samsungs— 

2016-09-10 

19:38:04, Sat 

OUTBOX 

But 1 don't think we're an absolute no on this one. Just we're not 
going to get to subpoena (ie not going to tell the committee f no), 
but we're not conceding vet 1 don’t thinkm 

2016-09-10 

19:39:48, Sat 

INBOX 

Oh. 1 got the impression we were going to offer come to HQ for no 
Pll redactions as our opening offer... 

2016-09-10 

19:40:03, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 can clarify. 

2016-09-10 

19:41:55, Sat 

INBOX 

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\n\nFBI agent climbed 
the ranks but chose to end his career back in a field office - The 
Washington 

Post\nhttps://www. washingtonpost.com/world/national- 

security/fbi-agent-climbed-the-ranks-but-chose-to-end-his-career 

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i Are you F*CKING KIDDING ME. A) That's pretty much the OPPOSITE 
of what was said yesterday. Kind of radically changes some of our 
thinking. B) Isn't it OCA's job to talk to OLA? 

Hey, let me know once you've read email. How substantively 

does it change what we want to to? Maybe not, if we want to avoid 
a fight on this. 


Trisha is going to be SO mad. Not only did Andy ask HER to 
reach out, but she even told Jason in an email to us that she had 

already reached out, but hadn't heard back yet. _ 

But no, I don't think it changes anything. 

he might work himself out of 
contention. I'm glad that my 6th sense of dude, I don't know that 
you know what you’re talking about/are wrong was working... 


Always with that guy. He just desperately wants to be in charge, in 

the know... ___ _ 

Talked with Bill 

Everything. He sounded like he thought I had called him, though he 

dialed me. Per haps he butt d ialed._ 

In any case, the week ahead. . He said Bowdich 

and Mike S aren't happy with it. Prep for Jason. His concern that 
we're throwing him up there, and the absence of an alternative. 



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Prep for the D tomorrow. 

OUTBOX 

Have you been on eras to know whether anyone else edited Jason's 
TPs? 

INBOX 

Stupid WH session 

INBOX 

Give me a sec. \n\nAnd yeah...but DID talk to DoJ \U0001f612 

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What time is your meeting? 

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2016-09-12 

11:25:13, Mon 

INBOX 

Npr says Trump hotel opens today. It doesn't look ready... 

2016-09-12 

11:26:16, Mon 

OUTBOX 

That's one place I hope 1 never stay in. 

2016-09-12 
11:29:23, Mon 

INBOX 

Agreed. Hope it fails horribly. It wont, but still. 

2016-09-12 

13:40:07, Mon 

INBOX 

Cyber blah blah blah. got comments back, so 1 think 

Jason should be set 

2016-09-12 

13:40:42, Mon 

OUTBOX 

That's great. 

2016-09-12 

13:53:33, Mon 

INBOX 

Heard from SESU, pay raise waiver is at ODAG. I need to call Iris 
anyway, do you have her #? 

2016-09-12 

13:54:48, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Iris is 

2016-09-12 
14:30:08, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hey btw, make sure when dale /castor lose their minds be you 
were asked to go, you identify jm as the person who tapped you, 

not me. 

2016-09-12 

16:05:28, Mon 

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Yep, 1 will 


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Hmm. It’s paper only, that might work. Need to find Carl 

2016-09-12 

18:08:56, Mon 

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JM is going to meet with him now I think, I’d walk down to him. 

2016-09-12 

18:15:09, Mon 

INBOX 

Good idea. Will try and drop in. In which case I'll be free at 4/4:30 
\U0001f60a 

2016-09-12 

18:22:37, Mon 

INBOX 

Carl isn't there :{\n\nMtg upstairs till 3... 

2016-09-12 

21:09:53, Mon 

INBOX 

Chaffetz is horrible.... 

2016-09-12 
21:13:37, Mon 

INBOX 

Expected blustering.... 

2016-09-12 

21:13:53, Mon 

OUTBOX 

God, glad I'm not watching... 

2016-09-12 
21:47:49, Mon 

INBOX 

Omg Gowdy is being a total dick. All investigative questions. And 
Jason isn't always sticking to the script on "I'm not answering that." 

2016-09-12 

21:47:53, Mon 

INBOX 

Horrible 

2016-09-12 

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This was a mistake 


21:54:57,, Mon 


2016-09-12 OUTBOX Oh no 

21:59:48, Mon_ 

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22:01:12, Mon 

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They aren't asking Qs on the topic. And based on the Qs, he can't 
defer. It's ALL posturing. He haven't done anything wrong. But we 
look like sh*t 

2016-09-12 

22:17:11, Mon 

INBOX 

in here he's leaving in a sec 

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2016-09-12 

22:33:17, Mon 

INBOX 

Hey. Who decided Jason would go up there? 

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22:33:42, Mon 
2016-09-12 

22:33:47, Mon 

OUTBOX 

D. Rybicki. 

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1 think. 



Recessed for a vote. Back to more OPEN session at 730, followed 
by closed session after that. 

2016-09-12 

22:41:07, Mon 

INBOX 

Call if you want to discuss 

2016-09-12 

22:41:36, Mon 

INBOX 

Is Rybicki in? 

2016-09-12 

22:43:11, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 assume so. 

2016-09-12 

23:01:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Should have mentioned that rybicki screens. Next time leave a 

msg. 

2016-09-12 

23:04:12, Mon 

INBOX 

Yeah well I'm not calling back. 

2016-09-12 

23:04:56, Mon 

INBOX 

They can drive mitigating this.... 

2016-09-12 

23:09:06, Mon 

INBOX 

IMing with From him. "1 can't remember a worse open 

hearing." 

2016-09-12 

23:09:34, Mon 

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Moffa? 

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2016-09-12 

23:10:05, Mon 

OUTBOX 

That is bad. 

2016-09-12 

23:10:16, Mon 

INBOX 

Yes, that bad. 1 told him 1 was sorry he confirmed it, 1 thought I 
might not be objective due to how close 1 am 

2016-09-12 

23:10:17, Mon 

OUTBOX 

He needs to mention to andy. 

2016-09-12 

23:11:19, Mon 

INBOX 

Talk, briefly? Just want to read dialogue to you 

2016-09-12 

23:21:20, Mon 

INBOX 

"It was horrendous. It was so bad, 1 actually plan to go back and 
watch the whole thing to be aware of it all." 

2016-09-12 

23:23:35, Mon 

OUTBOX 

said that? 

2016-09-12 

23:24:56, Mon 

INBOX 

Yes. Along with one other thing I’m not writing here 

2016-09-12 
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Man, that is not good. 

2016-09-12 

23:45:44, Mon 

INBOX 

God I'm getting angry 

2016-09-12 
23:46:07, Mon 

OUTBOX 

You should stop watching. You can't do anything about it. 

2016-09-12 

23:46:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'm frankly glad I'm not. I'm sick to my stomach and 1 haven't even 
seen a minute of it. 

2016-09-12 

23:47:05, Mon 

INBOX 

I have to! We have to mitigate it! 

2016-09-13 

01:19:23, Tue 

OUTBOX 

should be here in about 15 minutes or so. Just fyi. 

2016-09-13 

01:32:37, Tue 

INBOX 

And I'm trying to get lunch with tomorrow, to talk about his 
future. 

2016-09-13 

01:35:14, Tue 

INBOX 

Here you gk5\n\nFedera! Officials Testify FBI’s Investigation j 

Video | C-SPAN.org\nhttps://www.c-span.org/video/?415070- 
l/federal-officials-testify-fbis-investigation-hillary-ciinton 

2016-09-13 

11:52:32, Tue 

INBOX 

1 have Many Papers and Binders. Jesus too much to do. \U0001f614 

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13:02:16, Tue 

INBOX 

You in yet? Waiting to talk to Andy, you should meander down if it 
get in in the next 15 or so. 

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I'll of course fill you in later if you're not 


2016-09-13 

13:02:59, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm coming down to see andy now. 

2016-09-13 

14:53:26, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Is a b*tch. 

2016-09-13 

17:15:24, Tue 

INBOX 

and 1 both noticed (i didn't mention to you earlier) we both 
want happy Friday Lisa back \U0001f614 

2016-09-13 
17:44:02, Tue 

INBOX 

and 1 got a TOTAL brush back from at lunch. Passed 

without recognition, I even offered a "Hi " 

2016-09-13 
17:44:07, Tue 

INBOX 

And ok, 1 really want to hang out. You can come watch shoot. I'm 
next to Carl g 

2016-09-13 

22:31:54, Tue 

INBOX 

Need to talk to you about mtg and email I'm sending 

2016-09-13 

22:32:38, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Can call you from the car 

2016-09-13 

22:38:19, Tue 

INBOX 

Call when you're out I'll give you an update on call and 

calls, \n\nlf you want. \n\nWill both totally wait until tomorrow 

2016-09-13 

23:47:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Forgot to mention Andy this morning asked ogc to own subpoena 
response, JB gave it to Browder 

2016-09-13 

23:54:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Copy. 

2016-09-14 
09:10:57, Wed 

INBOX 

1 cancelled my trip to mission ridge today. If you have time to talk 
about the to D this afternoon 1 would 

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Btw, talked with Bill at length about (in the context of 

going through what's going on). In a way that didn't burn any 
source, he said he hasn't had any coordination on this, that he 
never discussed (or wants) giving anything up, and that if anything, 
ITC efforts should be located within one Branch with CD and CYD 
and SecD. Said Steinbach also thought the same. Though of course 
he's out this week, all week. 

2016-09-14 

14:10:16, Wed 

OUTBOX . 

1 have the two pdbs that ran today if you want them. 

2016-09-14 
14:10:42, Wed 

INBOX 

1 do. Can 1 stop by? 

2016-09-14 
17:57:23, Wed 

INBOX 

Crap 1 just stepped out of really good nsa brief on 

2016-09-14 

17:57:43, Wed 

OUTBOX 

So go back in 

2016-09-14 

18:00:59, Wed 

INBOX 

No, not to just leave again early. \n\nAnd "maybe," above? Throw 
me a bone.;) 

2016-09-14 

18:01:36, Wed 

OUTBOX 

in Andy's ofc. 

2016-09-14 
18:01:53, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Why don't you come in and talk intc? 

2016-09-14 
18:02:08, Wed 

INBOX 

Invite me... 


2016-09-14 INBOX Outside with Castor 

18:02:54, Wed __ _ 

2016-09-14 OUTBOX He is talking to right now. 

18:03:13, Wed ____ 

2016-09-14 4NBOX Boo. Still standing;) 

18:08:33, Wed ; ___ 

2016-09-14 INBOX Hi. You still here {hope not)? Supposed to meet Parmaan in 2... 

22:29:2 5, Wed_ 

2016-09-14 OUTBOX No. Why mtg with paarman? 

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2016-09-14 
23:02:53, Wed 

INBOX 1 

With a Legat over an issue. I'll tell you tomorrow. May eventually 
hit Andy. I'm sure you've heard of it. \n\nRemembered vaguely 
more detail from mtg. Andy mentioned he was still hearing ("3 or 4 
instances") recently that info was not flowing quickly enough and 
more re Mike and Randy and his previous convo with them. 
\n\nHappy to discuss now or tomorrow. 1 just had 10-11 open up... 

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23:34:06, Wed 

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1 already told him, then yelled at him about numbers in general, 
then yelled about Snowden. Not yell, but professional angry. It was 
very cathartic. 1 will invite you next time to sit at the chef's table 
and watch 



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2016-09-15 

00:47:41, Thu 

INBOX 

And 1 have no good, awful, sh*tty terrible (work) news. 1 can't say it 
here, and you can't share with Andy (yet). I'm upset. 

2016-09-15 
01:10:06, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Can you share it on imsg? 

2016-09-15 

01:14:55, Thu 

INBOX 

Yes just sent 

2016-09-15 
16:14:49, Thu 

INBOX 

GREAT convo with JR, let me know when you're back.... 



Sincerely good? 

2016-09-15 
16:16:28, Thu 

INBOX 

But want to get your thoughts on how he might play it/spin.... 

2016-09-15 

16:28:03, Thu 

INBOX 

Have a 1230 with Bill to prep him for Andy, then 1 staff meeting. 

2016-09-15 

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23:11:56, Thu 

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Also, Bill did not tell Andy about the loss. Background reasons why, 
which make sense. 1 can fill you in on imessage later if you want. 

2016-09-16 

00:39:25, Fri 

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Yeah really. No photos in fbi space. 

2016-09-16 
02:59:17, Fri 

INBOX 

Does Andy know he hurt Jim the other day with the "I don't have 
time for this"?\n\nl think that was the purpose of his look down 
the table. "See? You're right." 

2016-09-16 

03:00:03, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 don't know. 1 plan to tell him, just haven't had the opportunity. 

2016-09-16 

03:03:28, Fri 

INBOX 

Re , he knows he was a dick. Don't know if Jim picked up on 

his acknowledgement of it. 

2016-09-16 

18:15:13, Fri 

OUTBOX 

In ofc. 

2016-09-18 

13:17:32, Sun 

INBOX 

Thanks for adding Jon and me into that email chain. 1 think 1 added 
you on some of that correspondence on Friday, right (re Datto)? 

2016-09-18 

14:53:01, Sun 

OUTBOX 

BBC is saying that bombs in NY were CT. Sucks. 

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If it's a different thing, they're busy right now. 

2016-09-19 
10:35:02, Mon 

INBOX 

Hi. Not sure I'm up for this job. Up past midnight worrying about 
the thing 1 told you about on Saturday morning. There's always 
going to be something to worry about. And I'm not able to turn it 
off right now. 

2016-09-19 

10:51:58. Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hi. I'm sorry. We can control that part, 1 would try not to worry 
about it. 

2016-09-19 

11:08:09, Mon 

INBOX 

Sorry got up super late and scrambling. 1 hope so, re work thing. It 
really bothers me. My general upset has settled into 
disappointment at putting Bill in a bad spot and anger at the others 
for having tried to do the right thing for the right reasons. 

2016-09-19 

11:09:46, Mon 

OUTBOX 

You didn't put Bill in a bad spot. You've done exactly what he's 
wanted you to do. 

2016-09-19 

12:03:13, Mon 

INBOX 

See, this is the crap that aggravates me: 1 specifically DIDN'T tell Bill 
about the new Intel we got on Fri on so that could present 

it. Then _ uns in this morning and does it without me. 

Whatever.... 

2016-09-19 

12:25:19, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 know. But you have a LOT more access to bill than he does. It's 
not that important. He's feeling insecure. Let it go... 

2016-09-19 
12:26:57, Mon 

INBOX 

Hmmm. Sure, but. We've got a good working relationship because 
stuff like this doesn't happen. I'll say something, nicely. 

2016-09-19 

12:31:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Okay. \n\nAnd yes, Thursday works. I told Jim that and 1 are 
going to have a talk with Andy, asked if 1 could talk to him about it 
first. 

2016-09-19 

12:37:42, Mon 

OUTBOX 

And re , 1 still think 1 disagree. It would be one thing if he told 

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IB) inasmuch as walked out of meeting him and said to me, hey 
you need to talk to Bill about operational next steps on the guy, 
yes. Look, it's really not a big deal. For all i know Bill called him 
down. And there's a ton going on.\n\nA) good idea. I'm still 
thinking in should talk to JB about the issues {both our 
i organizational one as well as the dynamic Andy may be creating 
without realizing it).\n 

A) and then part of me thinks, this is the point. DADs should not be 
having lunch with the GC. Let the process work and keep my head 

down. _ 

Is there something going on around hq? Traffic is at a stand still. 


OUTBOX 

Something going on down 9th. No cars, no pedestrians, even with 
badge. 

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2016-09-19 

14:02:54, Mon 

INBOX 

1 think so...members, though? \n\nAlso, walking up 

2016-09-20 

00:02:26, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Forgot to mention that DD asked about what was 

calling about. We should discuss tomorrow 

2016-09-20 
00:07:42, Tue . 

INBOX 

Wasn't our stuff. 1 have details. Shockingly not a flaming turd bag. 
More precisely, not one of the flaming turd bags of interest to us 
now. \n\nJust leaving. Bill wanted to talk. ...\n\nTtyl 

2016-09-20 

INBOX 

\n\nWork 

10:15:04, Tue 


Q: were you there for discussion of SSCI appearance today? 
did prep and is scheduled to go with Eric. Bill wants me to go - I'm 
not sure if it's necessary, particularly given what session was 
supposed to focus on. Think it would be better for him to go and 
defer answering stuff not on point of the briefing. Bill said Andy 
said no but that was it. 

2016-09-20 

10:15:39, Tue 

INBOX 

Did Jason say anything about the expected topics? \n\nAnd why 
are we doing this the DAY before the D goes up? 

2016-09-20 

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Vn\nYes, 1 was. 

10:26:04, Tue 


We're doing it be it was already on the calendar. Multiagency. 
Nothing about expected topics, just the overall topic. 

2016-09-20 

10:27:22, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You going not a bad idea, though the goal is to try to defer a lot of 
it to the D tomorrow. 

2016-09-20 

10:38:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Right. And already prepped for the other stuff, him not 

knowing other stuff may help. We are already taking two, out of a 
three agency panel. 1 would need to bump him to go. I'll talk to Bill - 
think it might be smarter to brief him up on what not to say/red 
lines rather than me learn stuff... 

2016-09-20 

10:40:53, Tue 

INBOX 

Plus I'm supposed to talk to Glenn Fine at 145 with Baker... 

2016-09-20 

11:11:19, Tue 

INBOX 

Fla. 1 just pulled into work. Talk to Bill quickly, send an email to 4 to 
remind them-about TPs on then off to 

2016-09-20 

11:19:10, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Did you tell Bill why? 

2016-09-20 

11:19:52, Tue 

OUTBOX 

What ever came of keeping Dn? 

2016-09-20 
11:40:35, Tue 

INBOX 

A) nopel \U0001f60a\nB) 1 have no idea. 1 made the request to 
and Trisha. Not sure where it went, I'll ask. Neither were 
opposed in principle. 

2016-09-20 
11:42:04, Tue 

INBOX 

And while 1 hate it, i kinda want to walk over 
to the old post office and see what they've done with it. Want to 
go with me? 

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The new Trump hotel? No. 

2016-09-20 

11:42:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You've looked? 

2016-09-20 
11:44:00, Tue 

INBOX 

No, only some review online. 

2016-09-20 

11:44:55, Tue 

INBOX 

A) i didn't say anything. We don't have a scheduling conflict - he's 
upstairs... 

2016-09-20 

11:49:20, Tue 

INBOX 

I'll just move my 830 with SCs every Tuesday. 

2016-09-20 

16:41:43, Tue 

INBOX 

Omg omg omg you would not believe what CYD just proposed to 

put in our update for you.\n\nHope lunch is going well. Kinda 

reallv can’t wait to hear. \U0001f60a 

2016-09-20 

16:45:50, Tue 

INBOX 

And may 1 please preposition a notebook in your office (and drop 
stuff after firearms)? Need to go straight to a mtg with Baker 

2016-09-20 

16:55:47, Tue 

INBOX 

Disregard dropoff, 1 have all my stuff here. 1 would like use your 
office to drop stuff on the way to JB's, if I may.:) 

2016-09-20 

19:34:41, Tue 

INBOX 

You with Jason? Just saw mtg invite for 3-330. I'm going to stop by 

now 

2016-09-20 

20:18:36, Tue 

INBOX 

You rock\u263a 

2016-09-20 

21:17:55, Tue 

INBOX 

Because you send quick tips like Andy wanting a brief tomorrow 
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2016-09-20 

21:17:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Doj gave the letter back to you and Trisha for Jim/Andy's approval, 
right? 

2016-09-20 

21:24:16, Tue 

INBOX 

And if 1 get done in time need to tell you about convo with JR on 
prep tomorrow as well as feedback from today 

2016-09-20 

OUTBOX 

Not Andy, the D. But thanks. 


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2016-09-20 

22:28:11, Tue 

INBOX 

Thanks. Still salty from even Bills reaction subsequent to talking to 
you. Will explain. \n\nBut thank you. Deeply. 

2016-09-20 

23:46:07, Tue 

INBOX 

Good talk with Bill 

2016-09-20 

23:46:49, Tue 

INBOX 

Got much more info, which I'll share. One will irritate you (not 
about you, about Andy) 

2016-09-21 
00:21:15, Wed 

INBOX 

Well.he made the right damn decision. \U0001f636\n\nAnd I’m 
sorry, emails. 







2016-09-21 

00:23:39, Wed 

INBOX 

Sorry. "As quickly as possible." 

2016-09-21 

00:27:06, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 know. 1 loved response, will print for signature. \U0001f612 

2016-09-21 

00:28:33, Wed 

INBOX 

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00:28:50, Wed 

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No, just true. 

2016-09-21 
00:31:27, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And god, that makes me angry, what you told me. I think it would 
make the D ripsh*t. That's exactly the opposite of what he is trying 
to foster. 

2016-09-21 
00:32:22, Wed 

INBOX 

It's deeply angering 

2016-09-21 

00:32:32, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 hope we have the last laugh... 

2016-09-21 
00:33:06, Wed 

INBOX 

Let me stifle alternative, competent opinion by threatening future 
retaliation 

2016-09-21 
00:33:12, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Andy knows the There is no one more perceptive 

than the D, he surely does as well. 

2016-09-21 
00:33:56, Wed 

INBOX 

Maybe this is all something 1 should talk to Baker. But that would 
really be breaking the code with both of the two who said it. And 
would be unforgivable to them 

2016-09-21 

00:34:07, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Exactly. That is why bill needs to go get a cup of coffee or a drink 
with Andy, frame it in terms of protection of Andy, he needs to 
know what is being said behind his back. 

2016-09-21 

00:34:40, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 think telling baker is quite wise. He already knows what 1 think of 
He agrees. 

2016-09-21 
00:34:46, Wed 

INBOX 

The other thing that Bill said that 1 thought was interesting was 
considered what these people will say not only in the bureau, but 
they might also say in the post Bureau Business world 

2016-09-21 

00:35:08, Wed 

INBOX 

I'd have to wait to tell Jim. It's too close on the heels of you talking 
to him 

2016-09-21 
00:35:33, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Worse case scenario, you just have to be prepared for this to be 
your last job in the bu. Though 1 db think that is unlikely. 

2016-09-21 
00:35:55, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Just wait a couple of days. Ask to meet soon. 

2016-09-21 
00:36:47, Wed 

INBOX 

Okama 1 definitely definitely need to get out as sac before Andy 
goes 

2016-09-21 
00:36:51, Wed 

INBOX 

I'd work for you 

2016-09-21 

00:38:09, Wed 

OUTBOX 

So we've got 18 months to make that happen. 

2016-09-21 
15:58:48, Wed 

INBOX 

Hi. Bill and Jon re-did essentially what you and 1 did earlier for 

Mike. \U0001f612 At least we gave the same answer \n\nl find I'm 
really miserable. Not asking you to do anything. Kind of moping. 
Thanks for vour patience. 

2016-09-21 

16:01:36, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Re-did what? 

2016-09-21 
16:06:09, Wed 

INBOX 

Go through D and DD's insa comments and said, here are the limits 
of what's been said (which is essentially nothing )\n\nl'm positive 
neww, NSC called out FBI positively in the SVTC. Yay us. 


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You still here? Got background on the but have t0 

go back into wrap. These are going to KILL me. _ _ 

We can talk about it tomorrow. It is not urgent. Also, will 

need the info too. _ 

Great. Just had to tell a very angry that Bill was 

posting 3 (which means won't be returning there - he's 

currently I don't enjoy this part of the job. 

\U0001f615 _ 

Not going well tonight? I get the sadness and frustration, and the 
feeling of not doing what you'd want, but I honestly think you're 
too hard on yourself. I'm sorry\n\nYeah it really sucked. At least Bill 
did me the solid of not asking me, just called me and Dina in and 
said. I’ve told them to post 3...essentially telling a SC the Div does 
not have confidence in him to run the program. 


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^n\nUnrelated, 

your thing tomorrow afternoon is Hill, not WH, right? if so, and 
open (I think you or said it was), you should tell your Mom and 

Dad to watch CSpan.,.._ 

Not open, closed, member only. 


Oh. WAH wah 


Yeah, it's really fine. 


Ha. I'm sure it is. \n\nSpeaking of, forgot to follow up on whatever 
sumo silliness relayed,..convo for lunch tomorrow 


Not really important. Just didn't want to make an inquiry of me 
about whether i attended some standing mtg, specifically told . 
he wanted to go through me. 

No - it was something about taping (himself?)’ 


Two Ex-Spies and Donald Trump http://nyti.ms/2cYynG6 


Having second thoughts about 

Not sure what the other 

options are, though. \n\nAnyway, would like to bounce around 

with you _ 

More than A spy around every corner? I'm not sure about that, 

but yes, we can chat. _ _ 

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2016-09-22 

11:53:24, Thu 

INBOX 

Different topic, you don't think 1 should talk to Castor first, or both 
of them, or schedule a mtg rather than drop in? 

2016-09-22 

11:55:56, Thu 

OUTBOX 

No, 1 wouldn't worry about castor. Schedule, maybe. Let's think 
about that. 

2016-09-22 

11:59:25, Thu 

INBOX 

Clear through Bill then a short email, sir, do you have 15 minutes? 

2016-09-22 
12:01:47, Thu 

INBOX 

The "drop in" seems to contrived and too great a chance that some 
random person would be in there.... 

2016-09-22 
12:03:26, Thu 

INBOX 


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2016-09-22 

15:55:32, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'm thinking about saying something to Eric first, what do you 
think? 

2016-09-22 
15:56:35, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Do it in the context of, look, this puss andy off, but 1 don't need a 
secretary second guessing something 1 say, and certainly, not 
second guessing me in front of the division. If she is that 
concerned, let her ask andv. 


2016-09-22 OUTBOX 

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*this will piss andy off. 

|l think that's smart. How do explain that you know that she did it? 

i Any thought going direct with I don't think that's a good 

idea. ______ _ 

;And God, I haven't stopped, with no end in sight. I know you're the 
same. \n 

I'm just going to make reference to her going to a division to 
question my judgment. If he asks I'll say CD, but there are plenty of 
people I could have heard it from. I'm friends with lots of people on 

1 that division. _ 

3-4, right? I know you're excited. \U0001f60a\n\nBtw, afternoon D 
session invites didn’t go. What time, so Jon and I can block? 

No clue. hasn't sent it yet. God I hate her. 

Email says 3:30-4:30, but those times can be a little flex. 

Hey, also note that when responded to her, he also cc:ed me 

and Jon, then responded "thanks" to all of us. _ 

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2016-09-22 

18:52:47, Thu 

INBOX 

Got it, thanks \n\nl'm all good for you to use me as source of email, 
just gotta have a logical answer. "Pete sent the email asking me 
what the D expected/wanted'' 1 think would make sense. If it even 

comes d 

2016-09-22 
18:54:21, Thu 

INBOX 

While 1 hate Congress, there's something about all of it together at 
once. \n\nCurious how many actually show....\n\nCivics nerds, we 

are 

2016-09-22 
20:40:47, Thu 

INBOX 

I'm covering wrap with EAD for Bill.... 

2016-09-22 
20:47:11, Thu 

OUTBOX 

We are just leaving the Hill now. 1 expect it will be a late night. 

2016-09-22 

22:10:30, Thu 

INBOX 

(asking because talking to Bill, 1 can easily break away, though) 

2016-09-22 

22:16:58, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I am. Might try to sit on a 6:30 call with andy though. 

2016-09-22 

22:18:47, Thu 

INBOX 

Talking with Sporre now about your call.... 

2016-09-22 

22:19:16, Thu 

OUTBOX 

My call? I met with him. 

2016-09-22 

22:42:47, Thu 

INBOX 

No. Your upcoming call with 

2016-09-23 

11:30:17, Fri 

OUTBOX 

You are not going to leave your all hands early. You are a DAD. 

2016-09-23 

11:30:29, Fri 

INBOX 

And just sent the cyber/cd D invite... 

2016-09-23 

11:30:30, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Probably 45 or so. We'll see. 

2016-09-23 

11:31:02, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Not to me yet. Am I on there? 

2016-09-23 

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2016-09-23 

11:31:37, Fri 

OUTBOX 

^■ 

2016-09-23 
11:31:42, Fri 

INBOX 

No....\n\nAnd head explodes in 3...2...1 

2016-09-23 ! OUTBOX 

11:31:59, Fri 

Jesus. \U0001f621 

2016-09-23 OUTBOX 

11:32:17, Fri 

1 am simply going to send another f-ing email, cc Eric. AGAIN. 

2016-09-23 OUTBOX 

She fix the mye one? 


11:32:24, Fri 


2016-09-23 

11:32:39, Fri 

INBOX 

Want me to forward to you? \U0001f61c 

2016-09-23 

11:33:05, Fri 

OUTBOX 

No, she can see that. 

2016-09-23 

11:37:07, Fri 

OUTBOX 

So I'm going to forward the original email, and write, "Hi 

Thanks for updating the CD/CyD meeting. Could you please add me 
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2016-09-23 
12:14:44, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey they picked 2 SACs for NY yesterday. Let me know if you hear 
name...Mike said something that made me hopeful 

2016-09-23 

13:14:57, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm almost there. 

2016-09-23 

13:15:08, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Though I forgot the paper. \U0001f612 

2016-09-23 
14:33:43, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey let's find 30 min to tweak editorial and add voter stuff. You ok 
if 1 hit Rybicki for latest version? 

2016-09-23 

15:49:40, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 did not go. Let go. I'm furious at again. 

2016-09-23 

15:55:23, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm waiting for Jim B. I'll be done noon. 

2016-09-23 

15:56:03, Fri 

INBOX 

What'd she do? Other than be crappy? 

2016-09-23 

16:00:32, Fri 

INBOX 

Hey heads up im in your office 

2016-09-23 
16:47:02, Fri 

INBOX 

Ridiculous, right? I'm waiting to see if called to ask him, cam 

you just send Pete? 

2016-09-23 

16:57:44, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yes, please find out. 

2016-09-23 

21:02:41, Fri 

INBOX 

You still around? Would like to talk to you before leaving. 

2016-09-23 

21:06:26, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yuo 

2016-09-23 

21:14:02, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Headed to my seif. Just knock there 

2016-09-24 
00:47:18, Sat 

INBOX 

Don't feel like crying. He was a dick. And if he's an SES, and about 
to be an SAC, he needs more maturity and consideration 

2016-09-24 

00:49:42, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I do. Fighting tears at the table. 

2016-09-24 

00:49:49, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I’m not happy. 

2016-09-24 

00:50:34, Sat 

INBOX 

1 know. 1 want to go confront him. That would not end well for any 
of us (him, me, you) on a number of levels. 

2016-09-24 

00:51:33, Sat 

INBOX 

Best I can tell you us try and see his offering an insight into his 
admission of his own weakness and insecurity and try and take that 
in the best possible light. 

2016-09-24 

18:06:40, Sat 

INBOX 

Hey. Work Q. CyD is doing some big thing for the D still. Do you 
think we'd be ok giving separate products to him? Ours is (good 


and concise and) done, I want to avoid our guys having to come in 


tomorrow to fight through editing a joint product. 


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Disregard. We're going to send them what we've got and let them 
incorporat e it into the irs._ 


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I_ 


D's PC is from 11:30-1, so yeah, it's going to have to be right first 
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19:24:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Work talk quickly? 

2016-09-24 
20:00:25, Sat 

INBOX 




iA/hat did he think? Have you come to any ideas about how 
you'd like to address some of the work stuff? 

2016-09-24 

20:03:37, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No. Just that 1 need to find my The conversation was mostly 

about he and 1, work anc 



But at least he knows how 1 feel about a whole mix of 

things now. 

2016-09-24 

20:50:27, Sat 

INBOX 

And 

\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\UOOO 
lf621 eras just disconnected and 1 lost the mye prep email 1 was 
writing. 

2016-09-24 

20:58:08, Sat 

INBOX 

Whew. Was able to recover it, and just sent 


2016-09-24 

22:21:21, Sat 

INBOX 

The Mystery of Trump\u2019s Man in Moscow - POLITICO 
Magazine\nhttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/the 
mvste rv-of-trum ps-m a n-in-m oscow-214283 

2016-09-25 
20:49:05, Sun 

INBOX 

Walking to the office, see what CYD put together...not holding my 
breath 

2016-09-25 

20:58:54, Sun 

INBOX 

\n\nOf course, cyber sent everyone home 
without sending the doc to review. AFTER specifically asking us to 
come in today to chop....\n\nl AM SO MAD 

2016-09-25 

21:02:56, Sun 

OUTBOX 

You should call spore right f-ing now. 

2016-09-25 

21:04:46, Sun 

INBOX 

Talking to him now. They're on the S side, with less detail. 

2016-09-25 
21:22:22, Sun 

INBOX 

Well, it's not bad. They feel compelled to add/adjust things in our 
section, which is irritating (much more so to Jon than me). 
\U0001f612 But we should have something tonight. \n\nFinally, it's 
A PAGE AND A HALF. Jon and 1 were laughing the two of us could 
orobablv do that in 40 minutes... 

2016-09-26 

00:21:27, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Note the BCC. I'm inclined to say no. 

2016-09-26 

00:36:38, Mon 

INBOX 

And def i would not send our (CD) stuff. 1 got the impression from 
Andy there was some question if the D would want to use the 

info in the PC. \n\nl need to make sure CYD knows not to 
send it far and wide. 1 can see them messing that up.\n\nAnd if the 
background - that the community is saying it's all our fault and 
waiting on us, 1 wouldn't want to play into that in unexpected 

wavs. 

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Re Sporre, 1 did. 

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00:50:16, Mon 

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OUTBOX 

1 know 1 need to watch it, but I’m not sure 1 have the stomach for 
the debate tonight. 

2016-09-26 

12:50:44, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Turns out 1 don't want to go to work. Apparently it's the biggest 
source of mv issues. 

2016-09-26 

INBOX 

1 don't want to watch the debate either, but 1 will 

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12:53:41, Mon 

INBOX 

And re work issues, did you decide what, if anything, you want to 
do with and Eric? 

2016-09-26 

12:54:01, Mon 

INBOX 

Eric getting a job will help...but who knows how long that will be 

2016-09-26 
12:55:25, Mon 

INBOX 

I’m busy responding to work emails from the week of Aug 15th that 
got stuck unread. Yep, it's pretty pathetic to say thanks for the job 
congratulations a MONTH after the fact 

2016-09-26 

12:56:11, Mon 

INBOX 

1 agree with you, but not following "no one is going to do it for me" 
you mean make you prioritize them? 

im 

OUTBOX 

Could you bring up that CD/CyD doc? 


INBOX 

Just rode the elevator down with Andy, had a nice convo. He went 
thru some of the stuff you shared earlier. \U0001f60a 

2016-09-26 

23:46:24, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Work stuff? 

2016-09-27 
00:33:25, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Did you read this? It's scathing. And I'm scared.\n\nWhy Donald 
Trump Should Not Be President http://nyti.ms/2dbQPuR 

2016-09-27 

00:40:43, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Man, 1 should have started drinking earlier. I'm genuinely stressed 
about the debate. 

2016-09-27 

01:06:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Oh god, she's already boring. 

2016-09-27 

01:08:20, Tue 

INBOX 

1 know. 100% produced. And 1 REALLY don't think she’s that bad. 

She just can't escape the formula.... 

2016-09-27 

01:10:33, Tue 

OUTBOX 

She can't. Can you imsg instead? 

2016-09-27 

01:11:09, Tue 

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masters degree. He told me after some briefing where D and Jon 
made one of their Gtwn - William and Mary riffs.... 

2016-09-27 

01:13:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Wow, really? Masters in what? 

2016-09-27 

09:50:46, Tue 

INBOX 

Hi. 1 don't know. 

2016-09-27 

10:37:52, Tue 

INBOX 

Can I ask you a question about yesterday's discussion? Why rule 
out a job at DoJ. Not NSD or ODAG? 

2016-09-27 

10:38:13, Tue 

INBOX 

Too political? 

2016-09-27 

10:39:43, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No way. 1 don't see what 1 get out of that, and I'd have to deal with 
all the political BS. 

2016-09-27 

10:40:32, Tue 

INBOX 

Political connections. Better entree into other jobs? Maybe not the 
latter. 

2016-09-27 

11:44:15, Tue 

INBOX 

Nprjust mentioned jeh appearing before Congress today. No 
mention of the FBI. 

2016-09-27 

OUTBOX 

Jeh? Hoover risen from the dead? 


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2016-09-27 

11:49:01, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Oh. Jeh Johnson. Right. 

2016-09-27 

11:49:27, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Honestly, that's good. The less people ask of us the better. 1 need a 
tv in my office. \U0001f621 

2016-09-27 

13:26:49, Tue 

INBOX 

Just seeing if 1 could reach you. Bill having Thoughts about the PC 
yesterday\n\nAlso per agency they may have them every Mon. 

2016-09-27 
13:29:08, Tue 

INBOX 

K.\n\nGet the intel report! :)\n\nAbout to talk with Scott. But that 
should be a shirt meeting 

2016-09-27 

13:29:09, Tue 

INBOX 

Short meeting. Not shirt meeting. We both have shirts. 

2016-09-27 

13:36:32. Tue 

OUTBOX 

Going to go see moffa now. With report.;) 

2016-09-27 

13:37:10, Tue 

INBOX 

Irritatingly, 1 am waiting on Scott for an SSA who went in at 955 for 
"a quick 5 minutes" \U0001f612 

2016-09-27 

14:52:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm watching the D. He is so impressive. 

2016-09-27 

17:35:02, Tue 

INBOX 

You nearby? In your office 

2016-09-27 

17:37:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No. Down with andy. May not be back 

2016-09-27 

INBOX 

Hi! I'm jealous about your Hill trip (again) 

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2016-09-27 
20:43:45, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Today's was more contentious, but more cool, because 1 recognize 
most of them. 

2016-09-27 

20:59:27, Tue 

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Hi. And the prep was with Rybicki AND the D. 1 like my job 
sometimes. 

2016-09-27 

21:25:29, Tue 

INBOX 

Call my desk when you’re done, 1 may need an assist shooing 
someone off 

2016-09-27 

21:34:50, Tue 

INBOX 

Never mind, he left. Just hit me here when you're done. You can 
tell me Senate stories \U0001f60a 

2016-09-27 

22:06:11, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey you done? Bill's been back, trying to avoid getting pulled into a 
convo.J may go hide somewhere \U0001f636 

2016-09-27 

22:12:21, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Done now 

2016-09-27 
23:52:02, Tue 

INBOX 

i 

Sheesh. Just leaving. Talked to you can't tell him yet 

you know that), you lawyers sure can talk;) 

2016-09-27 

23:59:53, Tue 

OUTBOX 

NO ONE talks more than He talk to you about ? 

2016-09-28 

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No this is about thing Baker got a call on. What's 

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INBOX 

Ah. No. 1 didn't mention. And I've got to follow up with Bill on that 
following our conversation. 

2016-09-28 

00:08:27, Wed 

INBOX 

1 

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Anyway, have a 10 o'clock link call with him and You 

should get the deputy to assign you so you can come play with us. 
;)\n\nHonest!y, it doesn't need the deputies office involved, but 1 
know we're all cool, and you like the cool kids \U0001f60a 

2016-09-28 
00:12:50, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 DO want to be part of that call! \U0001f60a 

2016-09-28 

10:45:25, Wed 

INBOX 

1 know! That’s why I'm admonishing you.\n\nOh - remind me to 
tell you what Bill said about Eric last night. You haven't talked to 
him about him, have you? 

2016-09-28 

11:09:45, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I haven't talked to whom? Bill? Eric? Answer is no to both. 

2016-09-28 
11:16:02, Wed 

INBOX 

Ha. Ok. You won't be surprised. \U0001f612 Not about you. 

2016-09-28 
13:13:08, Wed 

1 OUTBOX 

Goodlatte opened with the mye stuff 

2016-09-28 

13:14:36, Wed 

INBOX 

Today? Is it on now? 


2016-09-28 

13:14:52, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yes. Started at 9. 

2016-09-28 

13:15:09, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I’m in the D's conference roo. Watching with rybicki et al 

2016-09-28 

13:16:48, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh. Boo. 1 was going to stop by...\n\nHow's he doing? 

2016-09-28 
13:17:36, Wed 

INBOX 

Who was the npr interview? 

2016-09-28 

13:17:45, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Just member opening remarks 

2016-09-28 

13:17:59, Wed 

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1 I'm not telling re npr! 1 want to listen together. \U0001f636 

2016-09-28 

13:18:52, Wed 

OUTBOX 

We're watching online. 

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INBOX 

1 don't have it on CSpan 1 2 or 3 

2016-09-28 

13:19:07, Wed 

INBOX 

CSpan? 

2016-09-28 

13:19:21, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I'm sure, yes. Are you free? Come up? 

2016-09-28 
13:19:45, Wed 

INBOX 

Ok with everyone there? 

2016-09-28 
13:19:58, Wed 

INBOX 

Until 10... 

2016-09-28 

13:20:39, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh re npr\U0001f636 

2016-09-28 

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13:41:53, Wed 


And I'm so f*cking proud that we nailed all 
these Qs in advance of the prep \u263a 

2016-09-28 
14:57:21, Wed 

INBOX 

1 can miss my 130 no problem 
(frankly, a SC - level meeting, but need to be here by 2 

2016-09-28 
14:58:45, Wed 

UNBOX 

Np. Iris and 

2016-09-28 

15:13:33, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Trisha needs to talk at 1. What time is your 2:00 meeting over? 

2016-09-28 

15:18:20, Wed 

INBOX 

B\xf6\xf4\xf5\n\n230. Gotta be back at 345.\n\nWhat are you 
doing for lunch. 

2016-09-28 

15:21:19, Wed 

INBOX 

Still talking midyear? 

2016-09-28 
15:21:32, Wed 


1 worry the appearance to JR and 

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15:21:41, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yup. Gowdy now. 

2016-09-28 

15:21:56, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yup. Why not. Kortan here too. 

2016-09-28 

16:06:16, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I know. Me too. 1 have to meet with Trisha at 1. Maybe eat after 
that? 

2016-09-28 

16:07:18, Wed 

INBOX 

Sure if there's time before my 2. Trisha meeting brief? 

2016-09-28 
16:13:03, Wed 

INBOX 

sending me emails about the number of people in the 
room. \U0001f612 Yes, 1 was there. \n\nHas D said anything about 
#s of people in the interview? 

2016-09-28 

16:15:20, Wed 

INBOX 

You need help? 1 can step out in a few... 


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16:17:54, Wed 

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Your sacs badge is in here .. 

2016-09-28 
19:07:56, Wed 

INBOX 

Cyber fucked everything up with Iris and 1 have calls in to 

both 

2016-09-28 
19:10:07, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 

You are kidding me. \U0001f621 How so? 

2016-09-28 
19:28:47, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Hey, just called you back. 

2016-09-28 

19:31:36, Wed 

INBOX 

Sorry talking to Iris, calling 3:30. Which 1 guess was 2 minutes 

ago. 

2016-09-28 

21:28:23, Wed 

INBOX 

i 

Sorry. A lot of people want a lot of time. Not all of them need it. 
Didn't gatekeep for Andy as EAD, or was it better at that level? 

Can't imagine it would be 

2016-09-28 
21:28:54, Wed 

OUTBOX 

No, he had to do that for him. 

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21:29:12, Wed 

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2016-09-28 
23:25:31, Wed 

INBOX 

Got called up to Andy's earlier...hundreds of thousands of emails 
turned over by Weiner's atty to sdny, includes a ton of material 
from spouse. \U0001f628\n\nSending team up tomorrow to 
review...this will never end.... 

2016-09-28 

23:27:03, Wed 

| OUTBOX 

Turned over to them why? 

2016-09-28 

23:28:24, Wed 

INBOX j 

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Please don’t. I really don't want to know what is out there. 


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Republicans Just Cannot Let The Clinton Emails Go | Huffington 
Post\nhttp://m. huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57ecl965e4b082aad9b 
8c728 

"Found it hard to focus"?\n\n"Found it hard to 

focus"?!?!??!\n\nAre you Peking kidding me?!??!!\n\nDonald 

Trump got too much debate advice, so he took none of 

it.\nhttp://www.'slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/28/donaId_ 

trump_jot_too_much_debate_advice_so_he_took_none_ofjt.ht 


Ran into Bill, he was trying to get a hold of Jim, who was in with his 
Deputies. Secretary offered to grab him but Bill said no 


He's calendared to go to the session board. Does he normally do 

that? _ 

Hey are you able to step out to grab the product we discussed with 

andy? They want it cleared tonight _ 

Hey I honestly did not know the specific reason for the concern, 
other than what I told you. Thats why 1 was answering as I did, to 

see if he'd provide more detail. _ 

It was a convo between him, Jim and Kortan.... 

You also left your update. Let me know when, I'll bring it up 
before you go. \U0001f636 


Hey I'm almost home, sorry. Remind me tomorrow what 
said. 


And do you still have that O'Reilly article about the D? I can't find it 

hasn't an article, was Jason 

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Yeah 1 could only find some a-hole blogger who was going on 
his show.\n\nl am really tired of these people who are so blind 
with extreme belief and hatred of the Clintons that ANYTHING that 
does not fit their world view must be corrupt or incompetent. 

2016-09-30 
12:19:07, Fri 

INBOX 

Omg 1 need to talk to you \U0001f621\n\nlt obviously can wait, but 

I just had a flash of two more years of cyber dysfunction 

2016-09-30 
23:05:07, Fri 

INBOX 

Yeah, is awesome! She coordinated that response apparently 

with absolutely no one in CD. Because, you know, she was doing it. 

2016-09-30 

23:05:23, Fri 

INBOX 

Even though she’s had a sum total of 0 interaction on the topic 
before this afternoon. 

2016-09-30 

23:08:05, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, that's incredibly aggravating. You call her, figure out where it 
went? 

2016^09-30 

23:36:01, Fri 

INBOX 

Check email 

2016-10-01 

00:37:48, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Worse than anticipated, no? 

2016-10-01 

00:44:00, Sat 

INBOX 

The article? Not sure 


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00:45:45, Sat 

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Yeah, I couldn't tell either. 


The same reporter wrote an article about 
completely wrong... _ 


that was 


Well that's good at least. 


2016-10-01 
01:11:10, Sat 


INBOX 


I think so. Don't think this will be too bad. I hope. \n\nAnd hi 


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,nd finished that Politico article. Pretty 


Igood and accuarte, all in all 


2016-10-02 
01:14:31, Sun 


INBOX 


Holy sh*t. You see the NYT feed? No taxes for 20 years... 


2016-10-02 
12:16:35, Sun 


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Working on ERAS. Just emailed Sporre to essentially say are 
you SURE you have absolutely no update for the D from last week? 

. ( Because I know vou.doL\U.QQQlf£12_ 

I I'm also going to email Bill and ask him to say we need a 5 minute 

carve out at the beginning or end to and sensitive 

I ag ency stuff. We can't do that with 20 people there. _ 

Oh. And watch snl campaign family feud. Putin is on Trumps team. 

[Hilari ous. _ 

I would just email Bill and rybicki at the same time. 

Sigh. I'm sitting here working. ’ 

Damn. Might have made it for the D brief, except that there are a 
billion people in line try ing to get in. \U0001f612 
] Hi. Getting coffee with Jon and 


Ooh, and I have personnel gossips 


And just got back at ; or his DAD demotion comment, \u263a 


Going to sign my PAR 



Cartwright took the plea! 


|TPs sent. Wasn't able to link up with 


Tried calling, lyncing, and emailing 

He texted me at 836 to ask if I could talk, i said yes at 9, but no 

response yet______ 

Ok,: that's a little aggravating. Maybe he was out and just had his 
phone. Please let me know if there's anything relevant so I can 
answer if somebody asks me a question. Thanks. 

He probably had just left already. 


He just wrote me back \n\nah never mind. We just talked to 

Will fill every bo dy to morrow. _ 

Thanks \n\nThen I'm going to let Bill run up the chain tomorrow 
morning what's in his inbox now, you can adjust Andy later as 
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just called me. Can you talk? 

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01:55:21, Wed 

INBOX 

Sh*tty days that 1 want over as soon as possible. \n\nThe whole 
thing was a nice little kick in the nuts way to end the day. 
\n\nAnywav. 

2016-10-05 

12:01:25, Wed 

INBOX 

WH sent language, let me know if you can talk. 

2016-10-05 
13:22:04, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Make sure you call 

2016-10-05 
13:37:52, Wed 

INBOX 

Toscas called Bill on same. Said DIRNSA was 

2016-10-05 
13:38:24, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Kortan with me now, don't think they have the name. Just asked 
Andy if thst changes their calculus. 

2016-10-05 

13:55:29, Wed 

INBOX 

Steinbach said same thing. You around? 

2016-10-05 
13:56:03, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Have his last name only. Now looking for everyone in Maryland 
with that last name. Ha. 

2016-10-05 

13:56:28, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 need to talk to Jim re intc, then will be. 

2016-10-05 
16:34:24, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Hey just called. 

2016-10-05 
22:22:24, Wed 

INBOX 

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OH SWEET JESUS\n\nTHERE ARE 128 EMAILS ON SCION SINCE LAST 
NIGHT 


I know! That's what I was telling you! 


And a bunch of crapola about European data privacy officials 
expressing grave concern about this, Commerce getting calls from 
the European Commission and OH MY GOD I HATE F*CKING 
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ONLY MARGINALLY MORE 

EFFECTIVE THA N FIFA! _ 

I hate them\n\nl have no idea why I studied them so with my 
undergraduate and graduate formal education\n\nThey are 

abhorrent. _ 

And oh my God the Privacy Shield may fall apart, leading to civil 

disorder and and (breathless) and _ 

Yup, I hate them too. 


Sigh. I'm sorry. I'm clearing sentinel. 


I 

I 


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Did he travel with him?!?!\n\nYeah all good, had to solve the 
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2016-10-06 

00:01:47, Thu 

OUTBOX 

And yes, he did. He always does. 


2016-10-06 

00:02:57, Thu 

INBOX 

I didn't know that. Thats irritating 

2016-10-06 

OUTBOX 

Kinda crazy about the Atlantic and USA Today. \n\nThe Editorialists 


01:58:51, Thu 


Have Spoken; Will Voters Listen? http://nyti.ms/2dFmvcm 


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And I'm moving to NZ 

2016-10-06 

14:04:31. Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 

i 

In with andy. One sec 

2016-10-06 
14:04:37, Thu 

INBOX 

Sorry been in meetings with Bill since 9, another one with him 
starting now. Just left you VM. Done around 1040. 

2016-10-06 
14:43:41, Thu 

INBOX 

Boo.;) \n\nWhen do you open up? And did you get what you 
needed that you wanted me to call about? 


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Yes, call is obe. Should be free at 11:15. 

Might just be like what DD asked ours today. What's the plan to 
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Jesus. More leaks in the NYT 


Yeah and I made the mistake of reading some stupid NY Post article 
about how agents are ready to revolt against D because of 

MY.. .now I'm r eally angry.... _ 

There are a bunch of really ignorant people out there blinded by 
their politics 


You can't read that sh*t. And honestly, let them. The bu would be 

better off without them. _._ 

There are. 

Sadly reminds me how deeply politics, like religion, can sometimes 

blind obje ctivity. _ 

I can't help it. It's dick bait. I emailed it to you. 


I don't want it! 


Too late. Just ignore it. Also sent a really thoughtful David Brooks 

colum n. I really like him . \U00 01f60a_ 

Poor gotta be up, too... 


You meeting at hq? You should have just offered to get her at 
home, avoid the metro ride? 


True. Suppose I could still do that 
Just shot her an email 


Referenced in Brooks' article. I was one of his blog devotees for 
YEARS.\n\nAndrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness \u2014 and 
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Flaven't read him... 

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One of the finest thinkers of our day. An HIV+ gay conservative, but 
thoughtful and open to change. A lot like David Brooks. 

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What time is prep -1130? 

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Yes. \n\nWhy? 

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No invite, trying to make sure my calendar is right 

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Sorry, looks like she screwed it up. 

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Np. Not casting aspersions, just getting mine right. Did she send it 
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Yes. Appears to be correct otherwise. 

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K. DD's Conf room? 

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Yeah thanks. Got background ok doj's concerns about this. 
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1 want to set up a mtg with you and Bill re into. 

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Ok. He's back Thurs afternoon 

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What’s up with intc? 

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Rethought my response to the CYD advisory. Think it’s probably 
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Currently reading about Trump. Wondering if he stepped down if 
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That’s probably more likely than Trump getting elected. 

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1 agree. 1 think it would actually energize the Republican 

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You watching the debate on Sunday? 

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And I'm HUGE pissed because we found info (via searching 

Sentinel on an account that came out) that is wildly, hugely 
relevant to what we're doing. Just sitting there in a field office CYD 
file. Nobody caring, not interested. 

\U0001f620\U0001f620\U0001f620\U0001f620\n\nThey‘re 
BROKEN, Lisa! Is it going to take some Peking 9/11 - type event for 
everybody to stop saying, just coordinate better, have lots of 
meetings, figure it out? \n\nThe Bu will still recruit cyber people if 
we have a directorate. We will still recruit people if we can offer 
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And dammit, our guys shared it with the,TF on Fri (the right thing 
to do). Challenge is 1 bet both agency and Fort share it with their 
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God, now 1 want to know what it is. 

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I’ll send it on eras. I'm just worried dcia gets it and goes direct with 

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Wow. Yeah but there's no way I'm getting the time to get on eras 
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Ok. I'll call you later and we can talk around it 

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Do you want to send to DD and 1 can let him know to check eras? 

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Not before 1 talk with Bill and/or Mike. 

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Although he's in Hawaii with the DNI so I'm not sure he has it. 

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Jackson Hole (or wherever) then Hawaii. Tough life if you're the 
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Yeah but this is actually a follow on to a trip to Germany and is an 
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1 can imagine. It's a long way to go to then have to come back to 

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Hey, andy just texted the following:\n\nThere is a HO agent 

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And funny quote from way Trump will drop 

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Did you get my text re sending an eras to that dude? 

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1 did, but wasn't clear if vould get it. Do you think it's worth 

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1 told Andy you would. Up to you. Don't really know what it says so 
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Debate is nasty....\n\nAlso, heard from 
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I get that, but it's going to unhappen, and right quick. 

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sure if that was a recent add. Jon and I can no longer see it, though 
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Can I call you when we're done? 

Yes, though will be hard. 


And yes, please bring it in. Just leaving now. Had to double back to 

talk to Toscas. Have his nsts line now, at least. _._ 

That's good, because that's literally all he uses. 

Ho-ly sh*t. Did you read this? \n\nFor Many Women, 
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Sigh. Stupid dnd, I didn't see these. 


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Ok, the locker room talk twitter campaign was amazing and sad. 
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God, she's an incredibly impressive woman. The Obamas in 
general, really. While he has certainly made mistakes, I'm proud to 
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Reading the most depressing lead story about Trump in the NYT, 
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Stone \u2018happy to cooperate\u2019 with FBI on WikiLeaks, 
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Sorry, was emailing Jon and Bill and Jason about the PC prep, 
came back and asked if WF should reach out to Carper's DC staff. 
\n\nln the interest of time, 1 think Jason and 1 should just 
conference call his staff director this weekend, and wf can follow 
up as needed. At least that way we have initial info and the D can 
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Makes sense to me. 

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Sorry was just talking to Jason.\n\nNo plans other than this 
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Call went well. She confirmed Sen spoke with Monaco on Thurs 

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And I was careful about my statements to her but nonetheless will 
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Even if just the four of you go? 

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At least we made the f-ers work on the weekend... 

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Uh, and, yeah - like they're doing to us.\n\nl HATE this case. 

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Very nice work on that initial statement. Maybe we can talk 
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Do we prevent Hardy from being subpoenaed? 

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1 don't know. But he’ll be okay... 

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Hey just thinking - do you have a current official passport? 

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1 do. Need to find it, but 1 think it is still good. Remind me Monday. 

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K. Let me know what he's calling about... 

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There's some exclamation points there!\n\nHaving some concerns 
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Well they are for public disem, so we will have to read them in that 
light.\n\nI'm certainly worried about your dumb brethren not 
understanding the nuance, but what's the leak worry? 

2016-10-17 .OUTBOX 

23:09:55, Mon i 

You know who would be good to review and put them in dumb 
speak? Stephen Kelly. Lots of years dealing with dummies. 

2016-10-17 INBOX 

1 think we need to expand the other sections. In some cases, they 


23:12:10, Mon _ don't adequately convey our reasoning behind decisions 

2016-10-17 OUTBOX (Then let's do it. 

23:12:29, Mon _ 

2016-10-17 INBOX Let's. Need to get home and will take a crack at it. 

23:13:57, Mon I _ 

2016-10-17 'OUTBOX I need to print this tomorrow! Important. 

23:14:11, Mon I 


2016-10-17 
23:35:16, Mon 

INBOX 

It's ok, you've got that bg bonus coming....oh, wait, no. Thats for 
the people there for more than a year. Like and 

2016-10-17 

23:36:24, Mon 

INBOX 

They drink in London. 

2016-10-17 

23:37:06, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 especially like drinking in London. 1 will be the official food and 
beverage tour guide. 

2016-10-17 

23:41:54, Mon 

INBOX 

Can blue collar Budweiser guys like me and Jon afford your taste? 

2016-10-17 

23:45:11, Mon 

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On per diem you can!;) 


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Ha. 1 have made poor career decisions for sure. Can I go to London 
and not talk about any of this stuff that I'm incredibly sick of 
thinking and talking about? Maybe do a dramatic poetry reading or 
something instead? 

2016-10-17 

23:49:56, Mon 

INBOX 

...or better yet...maybe 1 can just carry the bags for a DAD and wait 
outside? 

2016-10-17 
23:52:52, Mon 

INBOX 

No. You will be the Mysterious Mute Election Analyst. Just 

grunt and shake your head up and down or left and right. \n\nGet 
that carnie vibe going 

2016-10-17 

23:53:13, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 thought 1 was the official bag carrier! 

2016-10-17 

23:55:22, Mon 

INBOX 

I’ll take one handle of the bag and you take the other. 

2016-10-17 

23:58:22, Mon 

INBOX 

I’m seriously thinking one of us needs to host election night party. 

2016-10-18 
00:00:22, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 nominate 

2016-10-18 

00:02:35, Tue 

INBOX 

I'll probably have to write talking points (likely for CyD) so 1 won't 
be able to make it. 

2016-10-18 

00:05:39, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You don't have to write talking points for Cyber if they don't tell 
you about the tasking! 


INBOX 

Word. 

2016-10-18 

00:28:47, Tue 

INBOX 

CyD prepping for election day on November 35th.... 

2016-10-18 

00:30:40, Tue 

INBOX 

Fine, fine, was an SNLjoke.\n\nhttp://youtu.be/qVMW_laZXRk 

BiSg 

INBOX 

Hi. This is literally slowing to a crawl since 1 have a months long 
thread. I should delete it but 1 don't wanna.... 

2016-10-18 

00:50:51, Tue 

INBOX 

Plus it'll take 5 minutes to delete. Suppose 1 could imsg. 

\U0001f60a 

2016-10-18 

00:51:03, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I honestly don't think the size is what slows it. These phones just 
suck. 

2016-10-18 

00:52:22, Tue 

INBOX 

To be fair, the thread goes back to Aug 23 
\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636\U0001f636 

2016-10-18 

00:53:43, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 think mine might be April. 1 just don't want to make the effort to 
find out. 

2016-10-18 

09:54:35, Tue 

INBOX 

Sigh. I've got to get going and get stuff to Bill before 
\U0001f612 

2016-10-18 

09:55:00, Tue 

INBOX 

You ever hear back from Jim or Trisha on TPs? 

2016-10-18 

10:00:24, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yes. said they would read it and provide comments this am. 


2016-10-18 OUTBOX 

10:12:13, Tue 
2016-10-18 INBOX 

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Np. Need 10 min... 


2016-10-18 
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2016-10-18 


OUTBOX 


Hey I've gotta go now because I have no break after 1. I'm bringing 
back, let me know if you want me to get you something 


Need to call 


first. 


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2016-10-18 

22:32:59, Tue 

INBOX 

Me too. Walked into office, Jon and Bill were there....really want to 
talk to you now...\U0001f636 

2016-10-18 

OUTBOX 

And 1 found my official passport... 

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2016-10-18 

22:46:23, Tue 

INBOX 

Yay! Still valid? 

2016-10-18 

22:46:50, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yup! Exactly a year to go... 

2016-10-18 

23:29:36, Tue 

OUTBOX 

How late you think you are going to be there? 

2016-10-18 

23:30:25, Tue 

INBOX 

Just left 

2016-10-18 

23:37:25, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No, not necessarily. Just thought by your mye description that you 
might be there a while. 

2016-10-18 

23:39:26, Tue 

INBOX 

No I gave up, will re engage tomorrow. Brought home TPs to 
review. 

2016-10-19 

00:29:20, Wed 

OUTBOX 

A little heavy-handed, but still, kind of incredible.\n\nHow do we 
respond to threats after our 

endorsement?\nhttp://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/2016/l 

0/16/publisher-response-to-threats-after-republic-endorsement- 

clinton-trumo/92058964/ 

2016-10-19 
00:45:08, Wed 

INBOX 

Can you talk? We absolutely must expedite. It was submitted as an 
expedite. 1 had to email as much. What the fuck is going on? 

2016-10-19 
01:22:17, Wed 

INBOX 

e only thing 

i objected to was the he said - she said comment. There is no 
ambiguity about who's right on this current point, and I furious at 
doj for suggesting otherwise - and we need to call them on it 

2016-10-19 
09:55:26, Wed 

INBOX 

You see Tim Cook made the list of potential HRC running mates? 

2016-10-19 
09:56:05, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Gross, no. 

2016-10-19 

09:57:48, Wed 

INBOX 

It was a big list, but still, he was on there. From Podesta email. 


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\u201cl\u2019ll look for... well, M:\u2019s called racial profiling. 
Mexicans. Syrians. People who can\u2019t speak American,\u201d 
he said, \u201cl\u2019m going to go right up behind them. 

I\u2019ll do everything legally. 1 want to see if they are 
accountable. I\u2019m not going to do anything illegal. I\u2019m 
going to make them a little bit nervous.\u201d\n\nTrump\u2019s 
supporters talk rebellion, assassination at his rallies - The Boston 
Globe\nhttp://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/10/15/ 
donald-trump-warnings-conspiracy-rig-election-are-stoking-anger- 
among-his- 

followers/LcCY6eOQOcfH8VdeK9UdsM/story.html?pl=ArticleJTren 

ding Most Viewed 
— 

2016-10-19 

INBOX 

It's Briefed up Bill with that and dates. He will provide to 

11:54:12, Wed 


Andy. 

2016-10-19 

INBOX 

Came up with election night plan - we should all hit HH 

13:04:19, Wed 


somewhere. Figure this damn thing better be called early. 



\U0001f612\n\nYou watching the debate tonight? 




2016-10-19 

OUTBOX 

That's a good plan. 

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2016-10-19 

OUTBOX 

DAG approved. 1 told already to stand by for one edit. Am going 

20:18:08, Wed 


to go tell andy now. 

2016-10-19 

OUTBOX 

Might be a minute past 4:30 because 1 am waiting for Andy to leave 

20:23:06, Wed 


d office to tell him. 

2016-10-19 

OUTBOX 

Yeah. But still waiting for Andy. 

20:31:29, Wed 



2016-10-20 

INBOX 

You got a 

00:34:16, Thu 


bonus from MYE. 

2016-10-20 

INBOX 

Just write, look, I'm supposed to get some small amount, or 

00:37:04, Thu 


something I, for MYE. Plus some time off. Then do 4-5 days. 



\n\nPlease. 1 insist. I'll make up the $ in per diem in London... 

2016-10-20 

INBOX 

You gotta watch the debates.... 

00:54:15, Thu 



2016-10-20 

OUTBOX 

I'm not watching. 1 honestly don't want to. It is not worth the stress 

00:57:07, Thu 


to me. 

2016-10-20 

INBOX 

1 cannot believe what 

01:15:12, Thu 


l.am hearing. 

2016-10-20 

INBOX 

1 am riled up. Trump is a fucking idiot, is unable to provide a 

01:15:44, Thu 


coherent answer. 

2016-10-20 

OUTBOX 

Please. 1 honestly don't want to know. 

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2016-10-20 

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It's not worth your stress either. 

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01:22:36, Thu 

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1 CAN'T PULL AWAY. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO OUR 

COUNTRY, LIS?!??!?! 

2016-10-20 

01:23:08, Thu 

INBOX 


2016-10-20 

01:24:19, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 don't know. But we'll get it back. We're America. We rock. 

2016-10-20 
01:28:22, Thu 

INBOX 

Donald just said "bad hombres"\n\n\U0001f612 

2016-10-20 
01:30:00, Thu 

INBOX 

. 

Chris Wallace is a turd 

2016-10-20 

INBOX 

Hillary: Russia and WikiLeaks and highest levels of Russian 

01:30:02, Thu 


Government and Putin!!!\n\nDrink!!!! 

2016-10-20 

01:31:15, Thu 

OUTBOX 

No. 

2016-10-20 

INBOX 

Oh hot damn. HRC is throwing down saying Trump in bed with 

01:32:40, Thu 


russia 

2016-10-20 

01:49:01, Thu 

INBOX 

Sigh. I'm sorry. Just don't turn on this goddamn debate. 

2016-10-20 

01:49:29, Thu 

OUTBOX 

There's no chance. 

2016-10-20 

01:50:30, Thu 

OUTBOX 

what is watching going to accomplish? 

You can read about it in the morning. Even watch clips if 

you must. 

2016-10-20 
01:50:50, Thu 

INBOX 

She could do SO MUCH BETTER \n\nBut she's just not getting 
traction.' 

\U0C01f621\U0001f621\U0001f621\U0001f621 

2016-10-20 

01:51:20, Thu 

INBOX 


2016-10-20 
01:52:13, Thu 

OUTBOX 

You DO have control over this anger and 

frustration. 

2016-10-20 

02:02:43, Thu 

INBOX 

Maybe. 1 have to watch this. \n\nAnd I’m so damn mad, Lisa. 
\n\nAnd disgusted. And disappointed. 

2016-10-20 

02:12:37, Thu 

INBOX 

Trump just said what the fbi did is disgraceful 


2016-10-20 INBOX Hi. Watching the post-debate commentary. Vaguely satisfying to 

09:56:27, Thu see Megyn Kelley (who had botox and looks HORRIBLE) utterly 


going after Trump. 


2016-10-20 
10:57:57, Thu 


OUTBOX 


Our prep for Andy is at 9. 


2016-10-20 
15:19:55, Thu 


OUTBOX 


Have to go down and talk to andy probably around 12:30. Probably 
only have time for lunch around here. Maybe tomorrow... 


2016-10-20 
17:00:41, Thu 


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Please have someone make one big binder of all the material. We'll 

split it u p._ _ 

Will do. Whole case, starting with 302s?’ 



Maybe, \n\nl mentioned to Bill, he wants to sit in, mentioned he 

wouldn't say any thing...._ 

I'll talk to andy/kortan tomorrow. 


A) ok. Dont really want Bill there but i get it. 


Yay. \u263a Talking with Mike. May be hard to check this with 
and in here.... 


You sound a little defensive. Bring your voice down a notch. 


But correct Mike, we didn't make the decision re prosecution. 


;} done 


We don't know but that's is not our job. 
That is not a crime that we can prosecute. 


Don't answer that. You can't defend the d 


I've got it 


Yeah but the d has done that. Chaffetz texts him directly. 


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2016-10-21 

20:34:54, Fri 

INBOX 

Yep. I'm out, dropping stuff at ofc 

2016-10-21 

20:37:10, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Mine? 1 need to unlock then. 

2016-10-21 

INBOX 

My office. Headed to elevator now 

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INBOX 

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2016-10-21 
22:49:05, Fri 

INBOX 

Also, work-wise, called b/cToscas now aware NY has hrc- 

huma emails via weiner invest. Told him we knew. Wanted to know 
our thoughts on getting it.\n\nGeorge wanted to ensure info got to 
Andv. I told Bill. 

2016-10-21 

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2016-10-21 

22:55:10, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm sure Andy is aware, but whatever. 

2016-10-23 

18:49:08, Sun 

OUTBOX 

One sec, andy calling. 


2016-10-23 OUTBOX Christ. 


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2016-10-23 

18:55:06, Sun 

OUTBOX 

He just called. 

2016-10-23 

18:55:24, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Let me know when you can imsg. Not for here. 

2016-10-23 
18:55:28, Sun 

INBOX 

Wha? 

2016-10-23 
20:54:08, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Dd 100% supportive re your idea re Was grateful for the 

suggestion. I'm sorry 1 couldn't give you credit. 

2016-10-23 

20:54:55, Sun 

OUTBOX 

He's also going to tell the Eads in the am, and call bill tonight, who 
is supposed to call you, so you can call given the PC crap from 

back when. 

2016-10-23 

20:55:09, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 know, but I meant with him. It was a very smart idea. 

2016-10-24 
00:00:15^ Mon 

OUTBOX 

Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can't read it. 

2016-10-24 
00:04:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Huh? 

2016-10-24 
00:02:22, Mon 

INBOX 

Wsj? Boy, that was fast.\n\nNo word from Bill. Should I "find" it 
and tell the team? 

2016-10-24 

00:03:38, Mon 

OUTBOX 

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00:04:04, Mon 

INBOX 

Not behind a pay wall. 1 need to send 

2016-10-24 

00:04:59, Mon 

IN80X 

The article is not behind a paywall\n\nWe get several hours of 
warning about every other email, but not this, arguably more 
important than most... 

2016-10-24 

00:06:30, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Jesus Pete. Then fine. Send it to everyone you know. Or I can not 
tell you about it at all and you can just come across it given all the 
time you spend reading the Journal. \U0001f621 


OUTBOX 

What difference does it make to send it to the team Sunday night 
vs monday morning? 

2016-10-24 

00:07:37, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Thanks dude. Appreciate it. \U0001f621 

2016-10-24 

00:08:15, Mon 

INBOX 

Or 1 can get it like I do every other article that hits my Google news 
alert. Seriously. 

2016-10-24 

00:09:00, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Send me the Google alert. 

2016-10-24 

00:10:31, Mon 

INBOX 

Give me a break. Go look at EVERY article I've sent the team. 
\n\nCount them.\n\nThen count every Godd*mn heads up 1 get 
from Kortan and but NOT this one.\n\nThen tell 

me i should sit on THIS one and let them hear from someone else. 
You're not being„fair about this. 

2016-10-24 
00:12:17, Mon 

INBOX 

1 really cannot believe you're taking this position and it angers me. 
I'm going to hope your anger about Andy and getting dragged 
into this is clouding things. 

2016-10-24 
00:12:28, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I AM being fair about this. 1 asked you not to. 1 don't care that OPA 
sucks. 1) This is about trust, and 2) WHAT THE F DIFFERENCE DOES 

IT MAKE TO ANYONE ON THE TEAM? Is there some investigative 
step to take? Some mitigation measure? 

2016-10-24 

00:13:02, Mon 

INBOX 

IT'S ON THE INTERNET!!!!!! 

2016-10-24 

00:13:26, Mon 

OUTBOX 

WHICH YOU ONLY KNOW ABOUT BECAUSE 1 TOLD YOU IT THERE. 


OUTBOX 

Good, then we can both be angry. 

2016-10-24 

00:14:24, Mon 

INBOX 

1 want people who worked this reading it online before people read 
it first and ask them about it. I want them forewarned .\n\nFine so 

1 see it in an hour? When 1 open the paper WSJ 
tomorrow?\n\nThat's somehow different and OK? 

2016-10-24 

00:15:27, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yes. Opening the paper tomorrow is not the same as 30 seconds 
after it fucking posted. 

2016-10-24 

00:16:05, Mon 

i 

INBOX 

You told me it was there 30 minutes after it went up. \n\nWhy are 
you angry? Because it's critical of Andy? That's even MORE reason 
to get the word out.\n\nAnd how dare you accuse me of violating 
trust!?!? 1 give you candid advice for which I will tell no one and get 
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!Forewarned to do what? Because moffa or bill or are going to 

spread it around town? So what, you sending TPs to fucking 
so that he is forewarned and knows what the truth is? Because 

without that vour claim is iust bullshit. 

2016-10-24 
00:19:13, Mon 

OUTBOX 

This has nothing to do with Andy. 1 asked you to wait until it came 
to you. You would have had no idea any of this was out there but 
for me. And 1 already thanked you for your excellent advice, iust a 
tip, it's not the way to engender good will by doing a good deed 
then rubbing a fucking nose in it. 

2016-10-24 

00:20:29, Mon 

INBOX 

Why do 1 send noteworthy articles at all, Lisa? Should 1 wait on all 
of those? Should 1 treat ones accusing the FBI of stuff specially? 

Hold those? \n\nYou never have had a SINGLE issue with my 
promptness before. Typically, you appreciate it. This in no way 
points to you. \n\nl'm so angry you'd accuse me of violating trust! 
God! That hurts and l.try exceedingly hard to honor that in every 
aspect of my life and ] certainly did here. 

2016-10-24 

00:21:05, Mon 

INBOX 

Lisa I'm not rubbing your nose in it! I'm telling you your betrayal of 
trust line is wrong and out of bounds. 

2016-10-24 
00:21:47, Mon 

i 

INBOX 

1 will ALWAYS give you my honest good advice and opinion without 
any regard to what credit 1 get. 1 KNOW you go out of your way to 
credit me whenever you can. 


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2016-10-24 

00:22:22, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Show me your Google alert. 

2016-10-24 

00:22:39, Mon 

OUTBOX 

You don't know to go look for this one but for me. 

2016-10-24 
00:26:14, Mon 

INBOX 

It hasn't hit Google yet! I'll send it when it happens. Maybe 5 min, 
maybe 2 hours. \n\nBut the article was up a good 30 minutes 
before you told me.\n\nAre you upset because you thinks this 
points to you? Because if 1 waited that {20 minutes 2 hours 
whatever) time it would be OK?\n\nWhat is it that's making you so 
anp.rv? Because 1 simply don't get it.. , 

2016-10-24 
00:27:59, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, and 1 told you a grand total of 2 minutes after 1 learned it was 
up from andy. And you sent it 5 minutes after that. And if you 
actually read your texts instead of desperately trying to be first, 
you’ll see that us said no, 1 don't think you should send it. 

2016-10-24 

00:29:24, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 shouldn't have to explain all of this. You knew it was there NOT 
because of your Google alert, which is totally fair game, but 
because of ME. I don't know why any of this is so hard to 
understand. 

'2016-10-24 

00:29:29, Mon 

INBOX 

And god, I'm not trying to engender goodwill by doing a good job. 1 
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1 know that, and haven't said otherwise. \n\nNone of this is hard to 
understand, which is why I'm asking you why you're so damn angry 
at this. LITERALLY EVERY OTHER SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE we've 
treated this way. And the article was out for half an hour. My 
sending it in no way points to you. \n\nThe fact that everyone is 
treating this so hush hush differently is part of the problem. 

2016-10-24 
00:33:27, Mon 

INBOX 

And 1 can only take your lack of response to my fury at being 
accused of betraying your trust as either equal fury on your part or 
an acknowledgement that you were wrong about that, \n\nl don't 
treat your trust lightly or carelessly, Lisa. Don't so lightly accuse me 
of doing so. 

2016-10-24 
00:34:09, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'm done talking about this. No one is treating it all hush hush. 

Could you stop already? This has nothing to do with the case or the 
investigative team, and is all about trying to smear a public 
servant. So how about you withhold judgment about what is 
actuall^_going_on. 

2016-10-24 

00:34:59, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 believe you betrayed my trust. If I thought 1 was wrong or had 
made a mistake, I would just say so, thanks. 

2016-10-24 

INBOX 

Sent you two good articles 1 doubt our press roundup will pick up. 


09:58:44, Mon 


Was that 

on a bu website, or did you hear about it word of mouth?\n\n(and 
yes I'm truly interested in all this stuff at the same time I'm trying 
to find footing)_ 


And it's above the fold. Jerks. 

I wonder how Devin got a hold of the story. I have theories. 

And I don’t want to waste time today on the stupid argument last 

And Devlin is saying, not implying there’s a connection here, but 
look at the timing - server, then meeting, then case, then funding. 
The point we need to highlight isn’t the March date of discovery of 
the server - because to us, who cares? - it’s the date anyone 
realized there was classified on there._ 


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am: yeah me too. Just got 


VAnAny as to 


Timms' nf election hrief to DP 

OUTBOX 

No, shitty ass still hasn't sent the invite out. 1 hate her. 

INBOX 

And talking to Moffa now, need to talk to you before you talk to 
him 


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18:23:19, Mon 

INBOX 

Sorry Bill is hell on keeping on schedule 

2016-10-24 

18:23:45, Mon 

INBOX 

And then Scott ambushes me 
\U0001f612\U0001f612\U0001f612\U0001f612 

2016-10-24 

18:35:49, Mon 

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Going to go talk to Hit me here. 

2016-10-24 

18:36:52, Mon 

INBOX 

Rgr. On the IA? ? 1 have info on the first. 

2016-10-24 

18:47:14, Mon 

OUTBOX 

The second. Have more Qs for you too. 

2016-10-24 

19:16:04, Mon 

INBOX 

Need to talk to you alone before 345 

2016-10-25 

00:46:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 hate this case, \uoooif62i 

2016-10-25 

00:54:08, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Nothing more. Just all of it. 

2016-10-25 

00:55:02, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 asked Jim and Trisha to meet tomorrow morning. Please let me 
just meet with them alone. Please. 

2016-10-25 
00:59:55, Tue 

INBOX 

Sure 

2016-10-25 

01:00:51, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm still angry at them over this stupid 

2016-10-25 

01:01:23, Tue 

OUTBOX 

But I thought our ogc had your back? 

2016-10-25 

01:03:09, Tue 

INBOX 

Whatever. Did get a warm fuzy from Trisha. A little too reticent to 
say DOD was WAY out of line 

2016-10-25 

01:04:34, Tue 

INBOX 

Too much to explain here. \n\nJim and Trisha talking about 
shielding the one / any 302s? 

2016-10-25 

01:05:38, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 haven’t talked to them about it at all. Didn't want to go into it 
here. 

2016-10-25 
01:15:30, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hey George T called me tonight about the mye letter they are 
getting ready to send out. Remind me 1 need to ask you something. 
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Np. Just cranky at them for bad choices about 

|HH 

INBOX 

Letter to who? And sure. You can also imsg me 

2016-10-25 
01:17:02, Tue 

OUTBOX . 

Congress. Too hard to write. 

2016-10-25 
01:18:34, Tue 

INBOX 

Got it. F them. 

2016-10-25 

01:20:09, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Got the email. That's great. Let me get as much as 1 can to tell dd 
tomorrow, at least give him some good news. 

2016-10-25 

01:21:50, Tue 

INBOX 

Ok, though we have prebrief (maybe) at 10? 

2016-10-25 

01:22:15, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Whenever works. 

2016-10-25 

01:22:27, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And not critical. Just something to distract. 

2016-10-25 
01:47:05, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Thanks for the note to Andy, \u2764 

2016-10-25 

01:56:23, Tue 


Ok, no? 

2016-10-25 

08:32:12, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Christ. Make sure you scroll down and read that guy's comment 
about the polls.\n\nDonald Trump Dismisses Latest Accuser: 
\u2018Oh, I\u2019m Sure She\u2019s Never Been Grabbed 
Before\u2019 httn://nvti.ms/2evZhVL 

2016-10-25 

11:34:46, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh, I'm calling High Confidence.\n\nl am soooo late. Just sent Bob 
an email that I'd be late. \U0001f612 

2016-10-25 

11:36:12, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Why so late? 

2016-10-25 

11:55:09, Tue 

INBOX 

So Andy didn't respond. ..I'm sure busy /full mailbox/maybe not 
wanting email trail...still, have a tiny concern he took it poorly. 
Please let me know if you hear anything along those lines 

2016-10-25 

11:56:11, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Of course 1 will. I'm sure he did not. 

2016-10-25 

12:57:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Remind me to tell you my slightly cranky at Trisha yesterday story 

2016-10-25 

16:11:39, Tue 

OUTBOX 

stood me.up! 

2016-10-25 

18:10:58, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And 1 officially just asked my boss about London. He's good. 
\U0001f60a 

2016-10-25 
18:11:25, Tue 

INBOX 

Were you with him when he called Bill? I was here.... 

2016-10-25 
21:37:53, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hey, you should not wait. I caught randy, he 100% wants and 

cd there. Now waiting for andy. 

2016-10-25 

21:55:53, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm with andy and kortan. 

2016-10-25 

23:29:33, Tue 

INBOX 

Was talking to Bill, rehashed rehashed the the whole cyber ddpi 
talk. Looked at their (horrible ) slides 


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\U0001f636 well, yay! 


He didn't mention th 
us he wanted to go? 


You jon 


brief tomorrow - did he tell you who of 



Cool. \n\nAnd I just blocked out London on my calendar. 

\U0001f60a\UOQ01f60a\U0001f60a\UQQ01f60a _ 

So should I officially have move my trip? 


I need to tell Bill 


But yes, let me get confirmation from legat Brits can do it, and if 
so, then l would 


And you, egging Jon on...you knew I had those dates! ;) 

Wasn't thinking about it when I emailed, still had a foggy brain. 


What Drives Donald Trump? Fear of Losing Status, Tapes Show 
http://nyti.ms/2eHQZJs_ _ 


I see. I only caught the last 30 seconds or so. 


Let's talk about this later.\n\n\u2018We Need to Clean This 
Up\u2019: Clinton Aide\u2019s Newly Public Email Shows Concern 
http://nvti.ms/2dG6zal 


It's true! Plus, you were playing all too col for school. 
\U0D01f60a\n\nYeah, I saw that...happy to discuss. 


Stupid CIRG amateur hour 

Hit piece on Andy from VA GOP in Hampton newspaper 
That sucks. I can talk btw. 


I'm here. Talking to 
Your office? 


Can/should I stop by? 


Walking back now. 


Hey sorry. Was in with andy, now talking WITH I missed the 
call, right?_ _ _ 


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2016-10-26 

21:50:15, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Gotta go check scion 

2016-10-26 
22:03:00, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Okay, I'm going to leave now. Call you from the car to talk about 
Chaffetz and current issue. 

2016-10-26 
22:37:45, Wed 

INBOX 

Don't forget we have chat with Bill tomorrow at 10 

(same time Jason proposed) 

2016-10-26 
23:37:56, Wed 

INBOX 

Sigh \n\nLike going tdy to head up 

2016-10-26 

23:38:56, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Wow, really? That's news to me. 

2016-10-26 
23:43:55, Wed 

OUTBOX 

It's not that exactly. Long story, but we're in a real bind re the 

And plus, if it's fust tdy... 

2016-10-26 

INBOX 

Bill went through the open to the community bit. But not 

23:45:17, Wed 

' 

? 

2016-10-26 
23:46:15, Wed 

INBOX 

1 shouldn't complain, 1 guess, if it ultimately opens 

2016-10-26 

OUTBOX 

Beats me. But why are you complaining? 

23:46:20, Wed 


Plus just tdy, right? 

2016-10-26 
23:46:37, Wed 

OUTBOX 

It's not good for you to have wfo open now. 

2016-10-26 
23:49:06, Wed 

INBOX 

Just grumbling. Because should be tdying in hrd or training 

or something. Just don’t think much of him.... 

2016-10-26 
23:50:43, Wed 

INBOX 

So. What made you cranky? Was it not seeing Andy/Ericy 
stuff? Something at wrap? \n\nOr just because, no reason needed? 

2016-10-26 

OUTBOX 

First your overshare re Andy with George, then coming home and 

23:53:05, Wed 





, yeah,just 



everything. 

2016-10-27 

00:00:00, Thu 

INBOX 

And i hooe you really dont see that as an overshare. Intention was 
to say we're moving it quickly. Truly it's minor - don't think it's 


somethig George wouldn't find out, and don't think it slow rolls 
them. I’ll keep up the pressure. \n\nThe others stink, no question 


about it. I'm sorry 


2016-10-27 

00:06:05, Thu 

INBOX 

. 

auyui i m Jim i v 

Interesting - one of the Podesta emails talks about him hosting 

Peter Kadzik at his house for dinner in Oct, 2015. And in May, 2015, 
ijiiiSmQ asked Podesta for a job on the campaign 

2016-10-27 
00:16:55, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Sorry, was on with andy, now have to deal with Brb. 

2016-10-27 
00:18:58, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Hey, guess what. We're going to have a mye exam meeting 
tomorrow. Like old times... 

2016-10-27 

00:25:57, Thu 

INBOX 

Holy moly. Who? 


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Was talking with Jen. Picking our SCs. I'm glad she got the job. 


2016-10-27 
00:26:54, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Announced today? 


OUTBOX 

The whole band! We're back on tour! 

2016-10-27 

00:29:59, Thu 

INBOX 

Not announced, but they all know. Calls actually happened 
yesterday.\n\nAnd 1 feel (hopefully don't look as old) like Keith 
Richards. Andy joining via call? There's nothing classified.... 

2016-10-27 
00:30:48, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yes, he is. 

2016-10-27 
00:31:03, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Good. 1 saw her today, but didn't say anything. 

2016-10-27 

00:33:52, Thu 

INBOX 

Woohoo! It’s a Banner Day. What special occasion outfit should 1 
wear? ;) 

2016-10-27 

00:35:15, Thu 

OUTBOX 

No idea. But 1 did just realize that we all should have dressed up as 
classified emails for halloween. 

2016-10-27 
00:46:03, Thu 

INBOX 

Or blackberries. Or B1 redactions. Or sketchy big brown shaddy shit 

2016-10-27 
00:51:22, Thu 

OUTBOX 

That would be one needy halloween party. 

2016-10-27 

00:51:30, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Nerdy, not needy. 

2016-10-27 

09:33:52, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Buckle in...\n\nDonations to Foundation Vexed Hillary 
Clinton\u2019s Aides, Emails Show http://nyti.ms/2dK7eYx 

2016-10-27 

INBOX 

m 

10:06:39, Thu 


\ Reading the article you sent 

2016-10-27 
10:45:07, Thu 

INBOX 

But, meetings! \n\nYou locked in for lunches today and tomorrow? 

wants to meet, can either do a 30 minute coffee or 

lunch. 

2016-10-27 

10:45:56, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Today is i, tomorrow is trisha, so yes, 1 think so. 

2016-10-27 

10:47:21, Thu 

INBOX 

Sigh. Hopefully Trisha has something come up ..tomorrow would 
be an EXCELLENT day to get out 

2016-10-27 
14:26:02, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 obviously don't have to tell you how completely INFURIATED 1 am 
with Jim right now. 

2016-10-27 
14:42:59, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Did come up in any substantive way? 

2016-10-27 

15:12:47, Thu 

INBOX 

No, Will stop by with 

2016-10-27 

15:13:01, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Shocking. 

2016-10-27 

INBOX 

_ . ....■ 

15:59:34, Thu 


Need to make a call to Toscas at 1:05. 

2016-10-27 
16:21:41, Thu 

OUTBOX 

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16:25:15, Thu 

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Just spoke with JB...he relayed your convo... 

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2016-10-27 
16:33:42, Thu 

INBOX 

D is going to call Andy, we should talk before then. Have you talked 
with Andy, particularly w/r/t what JB subsequently told me? 

2016-10-27 

16:36:11, Thu 

OUTBOX 

He already did. 

2016-10-27 
16:38:06, Thu 

INBOX 

JB told me there was no requirement to recuse you, that is was 
optics,we went round and round playing that out. 

2016-10-27 
18:03:22, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Please, let's figure out what it is we HAVE first. What if we can't 
make out PC? Then we have no further investigative step. 

2016-10-27 
18:05:29, Thu 

INBOX 

Agreed 

2016-10-27 

18:25:56, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Going to the seif, brb, in case you come by. 

2016-10-27 

19:01:23, Thu 

INBOX 

I've got a 345 with Bill... 

2016-10-27 

20:38:14, Thu 

INBOX 

K. There's stuff from discussion today we haven't covered but you 
have the big stuff. Will think and write down anything else 

2016-10-27 
21:08:18, Thu 

INBOX 

God 1 am aggravated. Call me...now have a 530 re-group. 

2016-10-27 
21:08:58, Thu 

OUTBOX 

On with Devlin still. 

2016-10-27 

21:09:48, Thu 

INBOX 

Hope it's going well... 


OUTBOX 

I'm done. 

2016-10-27 
21:30:44, Thu 

INBOX 

I'm 20 feet from you and this feels unnatural. 

2016-10-27 

21:31:09, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I just walked in on Jim to force the issue. Me: "I’m not recused, but 
I'm not sitting in on this meeting." 

2016-10-27 

21:31:19, Thu 

OUTBOX 

He told me to just go chill out for a while, so that's what I'm doing. 

2016-10-27 

21:33:01, Thu 

INBOX 

That's good advice. Kg^gSSSSiiB^IFf^ 

2016-10-27 

22:32:14, Thu 

INBOX 

in the hallway with everyone incl Jason, just thinking he's going to 
try and stop by 

2016-10-27 

22:33:39, Thu 

OUTBOX 

You should not come by. We should talk by phone. 

2016-10-28 

00:18:45, Fri 

INBOX 

Do you have George's cell? 

2016-10-28 

02:09:04, Fri 

INBOX 

1 do now kinda love George 

2016-10-28 

02:10:06, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Glad to hear it. We should talk before your 7:30. Also sent a couple 
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02:46:34, Fri 

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Of course. Let me know when. I'll be driving in by 7.\n\nStill 
conference calling, 1:15 in... 

2016-10-28 

03:11:49, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Conference call with whom? This late? 

2016-10-28 

03:13:23, Fri 

INBOX 

George David |^Jon \n\nYes. \n\n Many feelings. 

\U0001f612 

2016-10-28 

07:50:42, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Any plan to tell the case agents? You know, since so much of this 
has hinged on the credibility of "the team." \U0001f621 

2016-10-28 

14:11:26, Fri 

INBOX 

Never mind Conf call now 

2016-10-28 

14:31:36, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Frankly didn’t want to. 1 don't need to be privy when 1 had no role 
in the decision. 

2016-10-28 

14:47:09, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 cancelled lunch with Trisha. I'm in no mood. 

2016-10-28 

17:19:06, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Still on with devlin. Mike's phone is ON FIRE. 

2016-10-28 

17:19:38, Fri 

INBOX 

It's on news 

2016-10-28 

17:29:58, Fri 

INBOX 

You may wanna tell Devlin he should turn on CNN , there's news 
going on; ( 

2016-10-28 

17:30:13, Fri 

INBOX 

Sorry;) 

2016-10-28 

17:30:17, Fri 

OUTBOX 

He knows. He just got handed a note. 

2016-10-28 

INBOX 

Ha. He asking about it now? 


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2016-10-28 

17:34:44, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah. It was pretty funny. Coming now. 

2016-10-28 

19:24:48, Fri 

INBOX 

News picked up Weiner source 

2016-10-28 
22:02:21, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Christ. It's there led on freaking MARKETPLACE. 

2016-10-28 
22:27:32, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Rybicki just called to check in. He very clearly 100% believes that 
Andy should be recused because of the "perception." 

2016-10-28 

22:30:57, Fri 

INBOX 

God. \U0001f621 

2016-10-28 

22:34:58, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Our statement affected the stock market. \U0001f621 

2016-10-29 

00:52:04, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Don't understand your email, if it's a matter similar to those we've 
been talking about lately, why no recusal before? Something 
different? 

2016-10-29 
01:21:48, Sat 

INBOX 

1 assume McAuliffe picked up. But that doesn't make sense. 

\n\nHe said he was interviewing, maybe he's headed into private 
sector? 

2016-10-29 

02:05:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Talking to 

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02:06:47, Sat 

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12:31:53, Sat 

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About to hop on phone with and Jon 

2016-10-29 

15:33:41, Sat 


Thbtbtbtbt. Can you work talk? 

mm 

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No. Going to brunch with 1 might miss the 1. 

2016-10-29 
15:44:11, Sat 

INBOX 

Oof. Hope you dont...actually, check that. I.hooe you have a nice 
time/break. I will fill you in if you miss it. Remind me later then 
about my convo with NYO 

2016-10-29 
18:32:46, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Hey is there a way to find out from sioc which numbers called in to 
the call? I’m concerned about all the beeps. I'm sure between the 
two of us, we could figure out what number folks were using. 

2016-10-29 

18:41:22, Sat 

INBOX 

Good thought. I'll ask. 

2016-10-29 

19:04:34, Sat 

INBOX 

Set up tomorrow for 12 people. Please check my math on that.... 

2016-10-29 
19:11:40, Sat 

INBOX 

And they cannot see the number for who dialed in 

2016-10-30 

00:00:26, Sun 

INBOX 

K. About to eat, so good timing. 1 will set away to review affidavit 
afterwards. 

2016-10-30 

00:00:44, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Have you sent it around yet? 

2016-10-30 

00:29:27, Sun 

INBOX 

1 did! You got it from me, right? 

2016-10-30 

00:57:39, Sun 

INBOX 

Hi. Excused myself from the table to read it. Have you looked at it? 

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00:58:57, Sun 

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2016-10-30 

01:31:39, Sun 

INBOX 

In a basement study by myself working. \U0001f612\n\nSee, e.g., 
the email in just sent JB. 

2016-10-30 

INBOX 

Going back up now to join the group... 

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OUTBOX 

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2016-10-30 

04:05:45, Sun 

INBOX 

What are you doing up? I'm red lining. Want me to.forward to you? 
It's sure to.put you back to sleep 

2016-10-30 

04:14:25, Sun 

OUTBOX 

And god, poor 

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2016-10-30 

13:50:53, Sun 

INBOX 

This is all Matt\n\nJustice officials warned FBI that Comey\u2019s 
decision to update Congress was not consistent with department 
policy - The Washington 

Post\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nationai- 

security/justice-officials-warned-fbi-that-comeys-decision-to- 

update-congress-was-not-consistent-with-department- 

policy/2016/10/29/cbl79254-9de7-lle6-b3c9- 

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Yeah, 1 saw it. Makes me feel WAY less bad about throwing him 
under the bus in the forthcoming article. 

2016-10-30 

INBOX 

Yep the whole tone is anti Bu. Just a tiny bit from us. And serves 

13:57:24, Sun 


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2016-10-30 

OUTBOX 

You going to ny? 

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2016-10-30 

INBOX 

No. Can review from here. From my office, even.' 

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2016-10-30 

17:27:31, Sun 

OUTBOX 

An article to share: FBI agents knew of Clinton-related emails 
weeks before director was briefed\nFBI agents knew of Clinton- 
related emails weeks before director was 
briefed\nhttp://waDo.st/2f2EhEO 

2016-10-30 

18:32:07, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Okay now I'm getting angry. 

2016-10-30 

19:06:48, Sun 

INBOX 

What - Dave's opening comments? 

2016-10-30 
19:30:47, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Sorry, utterly terrible day. I'm not sure 1 can identify one single 
redeeming thing about it. 

2016-10-30 

19:49:27, Sun 

INBOX 

Oh god I'm sorry\n\nTalked to Bill he's leaning not telling 

Bill,he was going to call Baker. We need that Kortan info go to 
weigh in the decision. 

2016-10-30 

20:39:03, Sun 

INBOX 

Oh God. I'm sorry. Stupid f*cking election. 

2016-10-30 

21:13:57, Sun 

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2016-10-30 

21:14:45, Sun 

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21:15:28, Sun 

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As long as you'll hire me in 3 years, I'm fine.... 

2016-10-30 

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21:18:17, Sun 


concerned that there will surely be a holdover after the 9, if that's 
the case, 1 want to be there. 

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21:19:37, Sun 

OUTBOX 

God, I'm so incredibly furious. 1 would just walk out and if 1 had 
anywhere to go. Let him deal with everything. 

2016-10-30 

21:26:07, Sun 

INBOX 

Yeah 1 think it would be helpful to have you here. will be, too 

(I think). 

2016-10-30 
21:26:28, Sun 

OUTBOX 

For morning meeting? 

2016-10-30 
21:26:59, Sun 

INBOX 

You want to talk about it? 1 can imsg... 

2016-10-30 

21:27:26, Sun 

INBOX 

No, standing by after that’s done in case they want to talk about it 
then 

2016-10-30 

21:30:33, Sun 

INBOX 

You can come hang out in 4012 with me and ...\n\nl 

have remnants of Qdoba chips and salsa.... 

2016-10-30 
22:11:22, Sun 

INBOX 

told doj we have at least one classified. 1 left a vague vm for 

2016-10-30 

22:38:59, Sun 

INBOX 

Connected w/ George 

2016-10-30 

23:06:03, Sun 

INBOX 

Great fcking nyt... 

2016-10-30 

23:09:31, Sun 

INBOX 

You saw the authors. ...what that even means anymore, I don't 
know 

2016-10-31 

00:38:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Oh, but DB wants to be able to show he's Doing Something. 
\U0001f621 


2016-10-31 

00:53:02, Mon 

INBOX 

Yeah, 1 thought so. \n\nOk. 1 need to call Bryan at WFO (was talking 
with and when he called earlier). Let me knock that out and will 
text here after that 

2016-10-31 

15:04:05, Mon 

INBOX 

Headed into 11..-Bill stressed 

2016-10-31 

16:03:06, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Can't WITH j |i. 

2016-10-31 

16:05:28, Mon 

INBOX 

Any idea how it went? Not sure source of his info, but bill thought 
Andy adamant he wouldn't. 

2016-10-31 

16:54:13, Mon 

INBOX 

K. Bill said Andy mentioned pushing mye until tomorrow. 

2016-10-31 

17:17:11, Mon 

OUTBOX 

That's the tentative plan. 

2016-10-31 
18:33:34, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Hey there. Want to meet with bill now or 4 better? Will need to 
leave right after if we keep it at 4 

2016-10-31 

INBOX 


22:07:15, Mon 



2016-10-31 

23:43:55, Mon 

INBOX 

Hoo boy. Just talked to Lou. Remind me.... 


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00:14:54, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Great. Can't wait to hear his thoughts. 

2016-11-01 
00:16:25, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh, it wasn't his thoughts (though he supports Andy, btw) - its who 
and what people said/asked him.' 

2016-11-01 

00:16:49, Tue 

INBOX 

And remind me Bills comments about Mike vs Randy response this 
morning.... 

2016-11-01 

00:17:02, Tue 
2016-11-01 
00:17:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 want to know now. This is kind of sh*tty of you to hang out there. 

OUTBOX 

Did you see the times this evening? Another Apuzzo/Schmidt 
special, all about the damn review process. 

2016-11-01 ' 

00:18:50, Tue 

INBOX 

Sorry. \n\nAnd no...\U0001f621 

2016-11-01 

00:19:28, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You seriously can't tell me now? \U0001f612 

2016-11-01 

00:19:56, Tue 

INBOX 

Not on this. Imsg in a bit? 

2016-11-01 

00:20:16, Tue 
2016-11-01 

00:20:47, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You can't just talk? 


What's the article? I'm not in the cool kids club who gets a 
notification 

2016-11-01 

00:49:18, Tue 

INBOX 

Did you read the MJ article?!?!?!? 


INBOX 

I'm sorry. \U0001f614\n\nThe article isn't nearly as important, 
obviously, but it's depression.... 

2016-11-01 

13:06:23, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey have to go to meeting with Jon right now 

2016-11-01 

13:09:07, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm on with Sorry. 

2016-11-01 

INBOX 


13:21:02, Tue 



2016-11-01 

16:57:29, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Just leaving his ofc now. He's going down to talk to the boss. It's 
not looking good. 

2016-11-01 
18:11:09, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey done. You around? Bill shared Andy's email 

2016-11-01 

18:11:39, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm waiting outside his ofc. 

2016-11-01 

18:29:15, Tue 

INBOX 

K. Let me know when you're free 

2016-11-01 

21:50:57, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey Bill wants to talk so I'm going to be out. He said it wouldn't 
take long but Dina and Jen will join so 1 truly have no idea. \n\nFor 
sure will be here until a little after 6. Call my desk if you want after 
that. I'll use it as an excuse to get up 


2016-11-01 OUTBOX I'm sorry just got out. Lots to share. 

22:02:58, Tue_____ 


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2016-11-01 

23:05:28, Tue 

INBOX 

• 

Figured out why they legally can't do what you just said. We are 
comparing against material (to determine what is new) that we 
obtained during the investigation that we cannot share with them. 

2016-11-01 

23:05:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh hey! Did you realize we affirmatively tweeted about the release 
of the wjc foundation? Yup! Let's take out the highlighter.... 

2016-11-01 

23:25:15, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yes! 1 heard about it at wrap. Utter complete disaster. 

2016-11-01 

23:27:04, Tue 

INBOX 

1 mean, wtf?!?!?\n\nWe're getting crucified in the news. We 
should have waited. Did JR or anyone weigh in? 

2016-11-01 
23:27:59, Tue 

OUTBOX 

It was automatic. They got it back up and running two days ago. 
\U0001f612 

2016-11-01 

23:28:55, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'll explain when we talk. 

2016-11-01 

23:29:10, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Oh and ruemmler called Jim b... 

2016-11-02 
00:29:32, Wed 

INBOX 

See email 1 just sent. Recommend you let the request (whatever 
form it ended up taking) trickle down, ther and i will address 

2016-11-02 
00:31:35, Wed 

INBOX 

You CANNOT source me 

2016-11-02 
00:35:30, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 will. This makes me VERY angry. 

2016-11-02 
00:35:54, Wed 

INBOX 

Well, Jon and 1 agree 

2016-11-02 
00:36:23, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, wtf is Bill and Randy's plan? 

2016-11-02 

00:37:09, Wed 

INBOX 

Like 1 said, see Jon and ny convo.... 

2016-11-02 

00:38:02, Wed 

INBOX 

And honestly, the other thing I'm thinking about? "The cat's 
away...." 

2016-11-02 

00:45:44, Wed 

INBOX 

This response, from Jon:\n...and considering we haven't shared any 
facts, those certainly aren't factoring into decisionmaking. We 
should essentially have no reason for contact with NYO going 
forward in this. 

2016-11-02 
00:46:17, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 know. Which is what 1 tried to impose. 

2016-11-02 
00:47:03, Wed 

OUTBOX 

God, this makes me very very angry. 1 honestly think 1 should bow 
out rather than find out things, be unable to tell Andy, and 
powerless to stop them. 

2016-11-02 
00:48:24, Wed 

INBOX 

No. Need you on the inside now more than ever. Truly. And no bs, 
your country needs you now. \n\nWe are going to have to be very 
wise about all of this. 

2016-11-02 

INBOX 

The only thing wrong in your statement is your powerlessness 


00:49:01, Wed __ 

2016-11-02 OUTBOX I am going to have to use Jim Baker a lot to get to the D. But I don't 

00:49:09, Wed_trust that he can convey details accurately!_ 


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2016-11-02 

00:49:27, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I'm not sure 1 agree with you there. 

2016-11-02 

00:50:14, Wed 

INBOX 

Not just JB. And this is a finite thing. 1 want to be done before the 
inauguration. 

2016-11-02 

00:50:45, Wed 

INBOX 

You’re wrong. Not the type of power you (or i) would prefer, but 
not powerless 

2016-11-02 

00:50:47, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Who else can 1 use? 

2016-11-02 
00:51:02, Wed 

OUTBOX 

JR? Don't think so. 

2016-11-02 

00:53:41, Wed 

INBOX 

I don't know. Trisha (to Mike) \n\n And not just you. Me, 

Jon. \n\nMe? Randy. My QT roommate. 

2016-11-02 

00:56:32, Wed 

INBOX 

We're going to make sure the right thing is done. \n\nYou 
underestimate my - our - enthusiasm and competence and 
motivation. \n\nYou can be worried. Take strength from me. Then 
add Jon and and Bill and Jim onto that. It's gonna be ok 

2016-11-02 

00:57:54, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I know that you guys are. 1 have complete confidence in the team. 
You know that. 

2016-11-02 

01:02:14, Wed 

INBOX , 

Our team.\n\nl do. I'm telling you to take comfort in that. 

2016-11-02 

01:06:21, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 just don't know. 

2016-11-02 
01:07:00, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And god, 1 just had a horrible realization: what if 1 can’t talk to Andy 
about my back and forth about what to do?! 

2016-11-02 

01:07:33, Wed 

INBOX 

? What do you mean? 

2016-11-02 
01:08:52, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Baker said to me tonight that if Bowdich or Steinbach come to him 
about the leadership decision that he shouldn't discuss it with 
them because once he is out he shouldn't have discussions about 
anyiof it, even personnel. 

2016-11-02 
01:09:24, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Pete, 1 really think this isn't a good idea for me. 

2016-11-02 
01:13:31, Wed 

INBOX 

lisa. The more 1 think about it, the more certain 1 am that it is. 

2016-11-02 

01:14:16, Wed 

INBOX 

Your conversations with Andy would be covered under atty 
privilege, no? 

2016-11-02 

01:14:53, Wed 

OUTBOX 

As 1 said to you the other day, and 1 meant, my country just might 
have to do without this time. 1 mean it. 

2016-11-02 
01:15:09, Wed 

OUTBOX. 

I'm not sure I'm following your second. 

2016-11-02 

01:15:49, Wed 

INBOX 

Stop it\n\nYes, but give me 5 

2016-11-02 
01:16:29, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Jesus. Another article pushed by nyt on this. 

2016-11-02 
01:19:03, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Richman is a friend of Comey and baker. \U0001f612 


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INBOX 

Bill told Randy no. 

INBOX 

1:) yay Bill 

OUTBOX 

No. Herring here. Stand by. 


2016-11-02 
21:04:40, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey big dummy you were supposed to stop by and unlock you 
computer so 1 could finish self assessment. ...\U0001f60a 

2016-11-02 

21:24:41, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I went back to back with mtg with andy to wrap. 

2016-11-02 

21:27:11, Wed 

INBOX 

■ 

Btw it took me staring at Kortan to out the info about the nyt 
\n\nAlso remind me re 

2016-11-02 

21:27:17, Wed 

INBOX 


2016-11-02 

21:27:44, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Huh? Not following your kortan comment. Talk to you later about 
it. 

2016-11-02 

21:28:34, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Gotta go back to kortan. 

2016-11-02 
21:30:33, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Do you know how to get a cached copy of the version of the article 
the times pushed out last night re Manafort and foundation? 

2016-11-02 

21:31:45, Wed 

INBOX 

How do you mean? An old version, or without showing current 
interest in nyt 


2016-11-02 
21:32:20, Wed 
2016-11-02 
21 :34:07, Wed 
2016-11-02 
21:38:52, W ed 
2016-11-02 
21:45:47, Wed 


2016-11-02 
23:48:4 1, Wed 
2016-' 


OUTBOX 


UNBOX 


INBOX 


OUTBOX 


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2016-11-03 

00:02:10, Thu 

OUTBOX 

2016-11-03 

00:03:08, Thu 

OUTBOX 

2016-11-03 

00:08:03, Thu 

INBOX 

2016-11-03 

00:15:15, Thu 

OUTBOX 

2016-11-03 
00:24:53, Thu 

OUTBOX 


Yes. They changed the article dramatically after kortan called, we 

want to see the old version. _ 

Hmm. I don't know. Talking with Jon and Bill in hallway let me 

know when you're done _ _ 

Who's the byline? Let me do some looking 

Coming back now. Apuzzo plus his buds. 


Getting Mangialardos for nextTues' meeting:..and cancelling^1 1 

think. ___ 

called, left a msg... 


Yeah, bill and to scare talked about getting subs. 


I suppose I'm okay with cancelling bob. Just this once. 


Bill just called to say George called Bill for an update. Bill tap 
danced without saying anything. George proposed I update 
twice a day. \U0001f612\n\nl told Bill to mention at the meeting 

tomorrow and come up with an answer. _ 

Also a dad is not updating twice a day. Thanks, but no. 

Also, we are going to have to share with DOJ. There’s already not a 
iot of trust here, and let's face it, and George are not the 

roblems. 


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2016-11-03 i 

00:26:08, Thu j 

INBOX 

lAnd no, it's not. I'm not sure 
anyone should be \n\nl agree with you. When we do it matters, 
though, and in what detail. 

2016-11-03 
00:26:54, Thu ! 

OUTBOX 

1 agree. But how much we've gone through and what we've found 
seems reasonable. 

2016-11-03 

00:31:32, Thu 

INBOX 

1 may have to short someone so as to give Andy and the Director 

one. 


INBOX 

I'm sure if Dave (or Mike) sees it the Q will be why not them, too. 
stupid politics. 

mm 

INBOX 

Or get it for my original plan and do the kiss ass chain of command 
plan later. 

2016-11-03 
00:50:57, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Sorry. Rybicki called. Time line article in the post is super specific 
and not good. Doesn't make sense because 1 didn't have specific 
information to give. 


2016-11-03 
00:55:50, Thu 

INBOX 

What post article?!? 

2016-11-03 
00:56:28, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Just went up. WaPo. 

2016-11-03 

00:57:08, Thu 

INBOX 

Goddamn bills opaque comments. 

2016-11-03 

00:57:36, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Call you? 

2016-11-03 

00:57:45, Thu 

INBOX 

Can 1 send to team? 



2016-11-03 OUTBOX 


Yes 

Okay I can talk again. 

Need to talk to you when you're done 

I'm done. But rybicki may call back. But I can talk now. 

I hate this case. 


01:59:36, Thu 



2016-11-03 

02:26:42, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Sorry, on with rybicki again. Email incoming from him. 

2016-11-03 
02:39:40, Thu 

INBOX 

To me? Didn’t get it. 

2016-11-03 

02:40:01, Thu 

OUTBOX 

You should. Maybe he will in the am. 


OUTBOX 

Also you can imsg but 1 might not be able to respond. 

2016-11-03 

02:42:27, Thu 

INBOX 

I didn't. Whatever is fine. I'll imsg in a sec, need to work out timing. 

2016-11-03 

02:43:12, Thu 

OUTBOX 

it is coming. 

2016-11-03 
02:49:28, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Ok 1 should be able to when you are free. 


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2016-11-03 

02:55:34, Thu 

INBOX 

Ok so obviously 1 want the background on the email 

2016-11-03 
03:18:53, Thu 

INBOX 

And dammit 1 specifically ASKED for guidance about what and to 
WHOM we tell DoJ 

2016-11-03 
03:47:54, Thu 

INBOX 

iBill talked to George well before 
Jim's email. DoJ is hyperventilating 1 want to talk!!!! 

2016-11-03 

10:00:48, Thu 

OUTBOX 

You guys didn't do anything wrong. Just say the D wanted to think 
about it. 

2016-11-03 
10:15:36, Thu 

INBOX 

Well, it's a little more than that. Bill did talk to George. 1 guess he 
didn't tell him much, but still. Anyway. 




2016-11-03 

10:28:29, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 know it's a little more than that. I'm just saying now that we are 
going to do regular updates just say that. 

2016-11-03 

10:36:52, Thu 

INBOX 

What did Rybicki have to say? 

2016-11-03 
10:37:14, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Will tell you later. 

2016-11-03 

10:37:41, Thu 

INBOX 

K. Stuff to tell you later, too 

2016-11-03 

11:29:41, Thu 

OUTBOX 

The nyt probability numbers are dropping every day. I'm scared for 
our organization. 

2016-11-03 

11:30:50, Thu 

INBOX 

Was just talking to Bill then Andy called him and he had to get off 

2016-11-03 

11:32:36, Thu 

INBOX 

Stein and moron are F'ing everything up, too 

2016-11-03 

11:40:09, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Stein? 

2016-11-03 
11:40:19, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Oh right. 

2016-11-03 

11:40:39, Thu 

INBOX 

Green 

2016-11-03 
11:45:11, Thu 

INBOX 

Oh :(\n\nBill wants me to call before 10, which means 

now. \U0001f612 Told.him 1 would bow hut that Jon and 1 are too 
busy to be producing regular, let alone twice daily updates to a 
gsl5. He was fine with that. \n\nFor background, he gave a general 
update to George at 615 last night. 1 am certain that's probably not 
what was communicated to Rybicki. Bill is feeling defensive about 
the email. 1 told him we had done nothing wrong. 


2016-11-03 

17:05:17, Thu 

INBOX 

Shhh don't tell anyone, mtg invite is thank you good job calendar 
hand out.\U0001f60a\n\nYou back? 

2016-11-03 

17:24:15, Thu 

INBOX 

Sigh. Have a 130 with Bill, prob nor enough to stop by. \n\nWe're 
doing par after D brief 

2016-11-03 

23:04:29, Thu 

INBOX 

Bill said he forwarded, hopefully you were on it; 1 was not. If there 
is substantive response /conversation, would appreciate the 
feeback. 


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23:05:21, Thu 
2016-11-03 

23:13:47, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Nope. Didn't get anything. That’s irritating. Green side? 

INBOX 

Yes. If he forwards anything back. I'll add you. 

2016-11-03 

23:15:44, Thu 
2016-11-04 

INBOX 

Not much to say about it, though. 

INBOX 


01:27:32, Fri 


worry we'll be drafting this damn statement all 

day. 

2016-11-04 
02:02:39, Fri 

INBOX 

And no 1 don't want to talk anymore. said had called 

him, also apparently talked to Jim earlier this week, was going to 
call him again tonight. 1 sent an email to Jim to call me for details 
about what ces did and didn't tell her. I don't really care at this 
point. 

2016-11-04 

OUTBOX 


02:21:57, Fri 


We might have this stmt out and be substantially done. 

2016-11-04 
02:23:21, Fri 

OUTBOX 

No Pete. It's your JOB. And plus she actually knows what you're 
doing this time. And that the American presidential election, and 
thus, the state of the world, actually hangs in the balance. 

2016-11-04 

03:19:04, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Dude. On Inauguration Day, in addition to our kegger we should 
also have a screening of the Weiner documentary! \U0001f60a 

2016-11-04 
14:03:23, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm sending the dogs, down to the review room in 

about 10. Randy's guy, will be with. \U0001f612 

Tried to stop that, so maybe just a heads up to but let the rest 

of the team be surprised. 

2016-11-05 

17:22:42, Sat 
2016-11-05 
20:24:17, Sat 

INBOX 

I hate this case 

INBOX 

Ok. \U0Q01f615\n\nArriving work around 5 or so 

2016-11-05 
22:00:48, Sat 

OUTBOX 

He had heard. Guy is in custody. Thanks. 

2016-11-05 
22:20:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Yeah apparently it's been there since 11 

2016-11-05 

22:21:11, Sat 

INBOX 

Guess we're not so good at the paint scrubbing thing. Or, maybe, 
you know, tape some trash bags over it or something 

2016-11-05 

22:40:45, Sat 

INBOX 

Jon and I forming the new facilities maintenance branch of the mye 
team. Cause we're doing it ALL... 

2016-11-05 

23:52:38, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 don't want to make a statement anymore. 

2016-11-05 

23:58:39, Sat 

INBOX 

Oh yeah still here. Here until welre done, review the potential 
unique cat Is whenever we're done and report up.\n\nYeah 1 don't 
either. We're kind of out of the news cycle, let's leave it that way 

2016-11-06 

00:39:34, Sun 

INBOX 

Going through status now. We may be complete reviewing in an 
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2016-11-06 

00:39:59, Sun 

INBOX 

Jon and I going to look at potentially cat Is 

2016-11-06 
00:49:05, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Sorry, I don't think 1 am calling at 10. 

2016-11-06 

01:10:19, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Why didn't you tell me all of you would be in this afternoon? 
\U0001f612 

2016-11-06 

01:13:18, Sun 

INBOX 

A) im really sorry\n\nB) i didn't know we would be. Jon and 1 

didn't get in until 5 

2016-11-06 
02:42:03, Sun 

INBOX 

Hi. Missed you. No real update. The three of us are going through 
the 3k (1000 each) to narrow down so the team can come back 
tomorrow earlv and de-dupe 

2016-11-06 

06:09:20, Sun 

INBOX 

Finishing up 

2016-11-06' 
06:34:09, Sun 

INBOX 

Leaving finally now. Turns our no new classified 

2016-11-06 

09:23:53, Sun 

OUTBOX 

. 

It was okay.\n\nWhy didn't you tell me that you all were getting 
together? Did someone not want me there? 

2016-11-06 

11:42:25, Sun 

INBOX 

1 thought I did mention. Jon and 1 were there to get an update and 
buy dinner and monitor progress, which evolved as you saw into 
very quick progress. arrived at some point in the process. 

Certainly no intent to exclude vou. 

2016-11-06 

INBOX 

I didn't know was coming until she was there -■■■■@111 


11:44:07, Sun 


2016-11-06 

12:11:03, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I still don't know that we should make this statement. 

2016-11-06 

12:11:41, Sun 

INBOX 

1 don't either. Imsg? 


2016-11-06 INBOX Hey do you want to send that email out suggesting a conference 

14:09:05, Sun call? I can if you want but defer to you 





2016-11-06 
14:15:11, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 did at 8:56. Did you not get it? 

2016-11-06 

14:28:46, Sun 

INBOX 

1 did. But my phone has stupid 20 minute gaps when it decodes it 
needs a break to rest or something 

2016-11-06 

14:29:21, Sun 

INBOX 

Add Conf room might be smart if we want to edit whilst we talk 

2016-11-06 
14:30:55, Sun , 

OUTBOX 

I'm having a hard time deciding what is appropriate for a Weekend 
With the Director. Have on grey jeans, navy v-neck, tan cardi. 

Brown loafers? Brown boots? 

2016-11-06 

INBOX 


14:36:09, Sun . 



2016-11-06 

14:37:36, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Sorry I'm very close to being late 


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2016-11-06 

14:38:23, Sun 

INBOX 

Hey, just trying to pass along the substance of a call 1 just had with 
Jim. 

2016-11-06 

14:38:45, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Will call from car 

2016-11-06 
14:38:54, Sun 

INBOX 

And yeah me too. On bridge 

2016-11-06 

14:42:35, Sun 

INBOX 

Great ANOTHER fucking road race 

2016-11-06 

14:54:44, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Might be about 2 minutes late. 

2016-11-06 

14:55:47, Sun 

INBOX 

Rgr. in add Conf room 

2016-11-06 

18:14:05, Sun 

OUTBOX 

We're still in the D’s conf room. 

2016-11-06 

18:15:06, Sun 

INBOX . 

Nice! D still there? :) 

2016-11-06 

18:15:52, Sun 

INBOX 

Would you pis ask Jon to check his email? Q. for him. \n\nThanks 

2016-11-06 

18:16:26, Sun 

OUTBOX 

He doesn’t have your phone. Are you done? 

2016-11-06 

18:16:49, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Can you come back in here? Are you still on the call? 

2016-11-06 

18:17:01, Sun 

INBOX 

No still on call 

2016 11-06 

18:17:24, Sun 

INBOX 

Disregard, got answer 

2016-11-06 

18:26:48, Sun 

OUTBOX 

We’re watching football in the directors office now. it’s kind of 
surreal. 

2016-11-06 

INBOX 

It’s funny 1 see Jim and Jim on the email and feel painfully left out. 

19:56:58, Sun 


There’s a Bridgewater flaw I need to work on. \U0001f615 

2016-11-06 

19:58:34, Sun 

OUTBOX 

That’s probably because they both know that part of his life. Don’t 
feel excluded It’s not personal in the least. 

2016-11-06 

INBOX 


20:03:36, Sun 



2016-11-06 

20:04:34, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 know. But you know it’s there, which is the first step to not letting 
it conquer you. 

2016-11-06 

20:30:52, Sun 

INBOX 

Out on CNN now 

2016-11-06 

INBOX 

And fox 


20:31:00, Sun 



2016-11-06 
20:31:58, Sun 

INBOX 

1 WANT TO WATCH THIS WITH YOU! 

2016-11-06 

20:33:54, Sun 

INBOX 

Trump about to get off his plane 

2016-11-06 
20:34:43, Sun 

INBOX 

Going to pour myself a glass of wine... 


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2016-11-06 

20:52:54, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I'm on fox. Trump is talking about her. 

2016-11-06 

20:53:42, Sun 

OUTBOX 

He's talking about Cartwright and Petraeus and how they're not 
protected. She's protected by a rigged system. 

2016-11-07 

01:43:03, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Good lord...\n\nlnside Donald Trump\u2019s Last 5tand: An 
Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance http://nyti.ms/2esuTs3 

2016-11-07 

08:54:21, Mon 

OUTBOX 

How Moscow Uses Interpol to Pursue Its Enemies 
http://nyti.ms/2edXuGk 

2016-11-07 

OUTBOX 

This was good. Kjjjjlii 

09:31:20, Mon 


*n\nIs There Life After Trump? http://nyti.ms/2eppNN6 

2016-11-07 

12:05:34, Mon 

INBOX 

Was just clearing 8 emails that somehow appeared overnight. 
Concerningly, there were several from earlier (ie, 5-ish) that didn't 
appear until after 1 last check this around 8 

2016-11-07 

12:11:13, Mon 

INBOX 

Ok. 1 have a 930 with the team and a 10 with and^B (1 

can do the 10 on the phone) 

2016-11-07 

INBOX 

Ok. I'm going to rush now. Will see if DOJ can call earlier. 

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2016-11-07 

13:25:48, Mon 

INBOX 

Once conference call done 

2016-11-07 

16:01:13, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Andy asked to meet with me right after my 11; will hit you up 
afterwards. 

2016-11-07 

17:16:26, Mon 

OUTBOX 

I'm done now too. Need to talk to you about a couple of work 
things. 

2016-11-07 

17:18:12, Mon 

INBOX 

K. In with Bill. He hoped I went to^^J mtg, told him 1 didn't 
know about it but would catch up with you 

2016-11-07 

17:20:03, Mon 

OUTBOX 

It's essentially a pissing match btwn ny and Sf. Nothing for cd at 
this time. But yes, 1 can describe. 

2016-11-07 

20:08:32, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Waiting to meet with DD at 3:30 now. 1 should have gone at lunch. 
\U0001f612 

2016-11-07 

20:11:34, Mon 

INBOX 

Apparently no...just came up...\n\nTalked to Bill about our convo, 
are you Ok for me to reach out to JB to ask to speak about what 
you discussed earlier? His thoughts will impact what we do and we 
need to move one way or the other 

2016-11-07 

20:28:34, Mon 

INBOX 

How long is your 330? Want to try afterwards at 430? 

2016-11-07 

20:29:16, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 have to go sooner than that. 1 probably have to go right after 1 am 
done with Andy. 

2016-11-07 

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22:17:14, Mon 


of providing briefings to the Hill, menioned you two working on 
howto approach drafting them tomorrow 

2016-11-07 

23:06:28, Mon 

INBOX 

Can you talk work? \U0001f621 

2016-11-07 

OUTBOX 

No 1 really can't. 


23:09:44, Mon _._ 

2016-11-07 INBOX Np. Just JB frustration. It can wait. 

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Impressive in its accuracy. \U0001f612\n\nHow the F.B.I. Reviewed 
Thousands of Emails in One Week http://nyti.ms/2egA2sg 

2016-11-08 

01:56:33, Tue 

INBOX 

OMG THIS IS F*CKING TERRIFYING:\nA victory by Mr. Trump 
remains possible: Mrs. Clinton\u2019s chance of losing is about the 
same as the probability that an N.F.L. kicker misses a 38-yard field 
goal. 

2016-11-08 

02:05:51, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, that's not good. 

2016-11-08 
02:42:03, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm sorry. Managed to get into a huge fight here about the Bu and 
Clinton. Because just can't stop at fair observations. She has to 
assert mastery of things about which she has NO knowledge. 

2016-11-08 

02:43:40, Tue 

OUTBOX 

She does realize you've been in EVERY conversation that has been 
had about this case, right? 

2016-11-08 

02:44:54, Tue 

INBOX 

That we should have gone on the record saying Kallstrom and 
others are not credible (which may be valid), but then saying we 
could pull his tolls if we wanted to. Because she knows all about 
our policy regarding investigations of members of the media. 
\U0001f621 

2016-11-08 

02:45:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Yes. But she's an expert who knows everything. \n\nl'm telling you, 
it's wildly infuriating. She has good points but then assumes wildly 
impossible understanding of things to make groundless assertions. 

2016-11-08 

02:46:06, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Uh, what crime are we investigating?\n\nAnd I'm sorry, that's a 
terrible idea. Go to war with the formers? 

2016-11-08 

02:47:53, Tue 

INBOX 

Leaking information about ongoing investigations. Which is 
incorrect information. By agents who don't know about things 
talking to him. \n\nSee? That's the thing. Her initial point, that we 
should have gone after the agents talking harder and sooner, is not 
unreasonable. But the subsequent discussion falls into uninformed 
assertions. 

2016-11-08 

02:49:08, Tue 

OUTBOX 

If it's not classified, what's the crime though? 

2016-11-08 ' 
02:49:26, Tue 

INBOX 

Maybe we should go to war with them, if they're spouting bile like 
Kallstrom. He's really out of bounds. That is a valid debate. Talking - 
telling - me how we should have done it is what’s infuriating. 

2016-11-08 

02:50:35, Tue 

INBOX 

There's not a crime. So you publicly shame or disavow him. And 
you find out who's talking to him and go after them with opr. It's a 
legitimate criticism that we might have looked sooner at all these 
oeoole running their mouths to the press. 

2016-11-08 
02:50:52, Tue 

OUTBOX 

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02:53:39, Tue 

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I mean how in the HELL do you assume you know something 
outside of your field? How can you not, as an accomplished lawyer, 
understand how far and wide the field of law is? You or or 

whoever would ever assume knowledge of things outside of 
criminal law. It bossies mv mind. 

2016-11-08 
15:44:13, Tue 

INBOX 

I don't think it's bad. 1 think there are agents doing as much who 
will not get a visit from the DD because Jon does a good job of 
advertising his people 

2016-11-08 

15:47:25, Tue 

INBOX 

They are Jens people not mine. \n\nAlthough it looks like Jon said 

2016-11-08 

15:48:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Is he going to the room, or just sioc? 

2016-11-08 

15:49:16, Tue 

OUTBOX 

He will go see the analysts, room, and sioc. Maybe I'll take 

him by duhadaway as well. 

2016-11-08 
15:52:09, Tue 

INBOX 

Ok I'm with but going to Duhadway at 11 with 

2016-11-08 

16:03:27, Tue 

INBOX 

1 guess I'm also cranky that has a prominent role at the 11 mtg 
that he should be at ON ELECTION DAY. 

2016-11-09 

01:06:45, Wed 

INBOX 

\U0001f60a\n\nHsppy Election geekdom here. 

2016-11-09 

04:06:58, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Trump won NC 

2016-11-09 
04:20:14, Wed 

OUTBOX 

PBS is projecting Florida as well. 

2016-11-09 
04:35:02, Wed 

OUTBOX 

CNN projecting FL for Trump. 

2016-11-09 

05:49:11, Wed 

INBOX 

Damn 

2016-11-09 
09:34:14, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And there it is. 


2016-11-09 
09:58:18, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Analogous to the public editor article Bill handed out. \n\nNews 
Media Yet Again Misreads America\u2019s Complex Pulse 
http://nyti.ms/2eCqXVM 

2016-11-09 
12:13:37, Wed 

INBOX 

Too hard to explain here. Election related. Which is also godawful 
bad.\n\nSure 

2016-11-09 

09:58:18, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Are you even going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of 
depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret 
society. 

2016-11-09 

12:44:06, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And Christ, we should just hit those thumb drives now. Their 
opinion is totally irrelevant. 

2016-11-09 
12:50:49, Wed 

INBOX 

No. And yes 

2016-11-09 

12:51:16, Wed 

OUTBOX 

I'll mention to Andy. 

2016-11-09 
16:35:28, Wed 

INBOX 

Omg 1 am so depressed 

2016-11-09 

17:03:50, Wed 

OUTBOX 

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And honestly, 1 don't know if I can eat. 1 am very nauseous. 

2016-11-09 
23:41:50, Wed 

INBOX 

Nice. Flash mob in front of old post office. Great for the commute. 

2016-11-10 
09:32:53, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Hey without thinking 1 replied to the email you sent me on Gmail. 
But it went to your verizon. So please clear. Let me know if you 
want me to send it again somewhere else. 

2016-11-10 
10:45:55, Thu 

OUTBOX 

The Burden on Donald Trump - 

Lawfare\nhttps://www.lawfareblog.com/burden-donald-trump 

2016-11-10 

11:11:57, Thu 

OUTBOX 

You clear verizon? 

2016-11-10 
11:15:42, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Okay, I've gotta go. Read that lawfare article. It's really sobering. 

2016-11-10 
11:16:34, Thu 

INBOX 

I'm reading it now. Resent you (and ) his much earlier post 

about whether to stay in government 

2016-11-10 
13:11:21, Thu 

INBOX 

Bill just sent a two hour invite to talk strategy from 1-3. Im in no 
mood to do so. 

2016-11-10 
17:50:43, Thu 

INBOX 

Drafting TPs for andy, can 1 send to you and further refine so he can 
hopefully call tomorrow. \n\nWe're now thinking Bill and 1 go, will 
explain. Maybe even fly Sun night, met Mon, fly back Mon night, 
only out of the office one work day. Or fly Thurs after work, meet 
and flv back Fri. 

2016-11-11 
01:11:17, Fri 

OUTBOX 

went to Bob today. He got me two names as referrals. 
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2016-11-11 

01:12:51, Fri 

INBOX 

YES!!!!! We'll talk about it tomorrow. Send me the names so you 
dont forget and 1 can research.N 

2016-11-11 

12:33:32, Fri 

INBOX 

K. I’m sitting here kind of depressed about the reality of the TPs we 
wrote yesterday... 

2016-11-11 

12:36:09, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm extremely depressed. Though today it's mostly not about work. 
Ttyl. 

2016-11-11 

OUTBOX 

God, I'm really f-ing depressed. 

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MI^^BliiBppp^nBill just called to talk about the sentiment 



of everyone he was talking to.... 

2016-11-11 

20:27:58, Fri 

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sorry. 

20:38:49, Fri 


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2016-11-12 

00:24:32, Sat 

INBOX 

1 like.our new case name 

2016-11-12 

00:56:45, Sat 

OUTBOX 

We'll see what others think. Alright, well sorry for interrupting. Talk 
to you later. 

2016-11-12 

15:16:06, Sat 

INBOX 

Except recently it's been checking gtwn every 5\n\nHaving a really 
tough time with election this morning 

2016-11-12 
18:20:00, Sat 

OUTBOX 

changed to Trump weekend, but it was more expensive. He said 1 
can save $500 if 1 go dec 20-23. 

2016-11-13 
12:14:18, Sun 

OUTBOX 

NYTimes: Facebook, in Cross Hairs After Election, Is Said to 

Question Its lnfluence\nFacebook, in Cross Hairs After Election, Is 
Said to Question Its Influence http://nyti.ms/2erVrPd 


2016-11-13 
12:34:03, Sun 

INBOX 

How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake 
News\nhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how- 
macedonia-became-a-global-hub-for-pro-trump- 
misinfo?utm term=.fwg4alklb2#.ws7v'nxJxN6 

2016-11-13 

12:56:56, Sun 

OUTBOX 

you don't think there is any risk of 
that interfering with london? I don't want to change it again. 

2016-11-13 

19:11:15, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 bought all the president's men. Figure 1 needed to brush up on 
Watergate. \U0001f615 

2016-11-14 
13:05:23, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Ran into in the elevator. Told him 1 was sad about the prospect 

that he might not be staying on. He said he’d see what you want to 
do... so maybe there's hope... 

2016-11-14 

13:51:27, Mon 

OUTBOX 

God, being here makes me angry. Lots of high fallutin' national 
security talk. Meanwhile, we have OUR task ahead of us... 

2016-11-14 

INBOX 

Yeah, 1 can only imagine. 

14:06:53, Mon 


So no update here. \U0001f621 

2016-11-14 

14:10:15, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Okay, I'll follow up. 

2016-11-14 

14:15:58, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Did 1 tell you that Charlie Savage is on a panel tomorrow? 
\U0001f621 

2016-11-14 

14:40:34, Mon 

OUTBOX 

1 really need to be here for the EAD/AD mtg because it will be all 
about transition. 

2016-11-14 

14:41:10, Mon 

INBOX 

A) ha. You going to introduce yourself? 1 wouldn't, nothing good 
will come of it.\nB) open. Something worth listening to? 

2016-11-14 

14:41:18, Mon 

INBOX 

Talking planning with right now 

2016-11-14 
14:42:37, Mon 

OUTBOX 

B) dd plan to lay out the lanes in the road. Just need to be there 1 
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Don't think so. Just Eads and ads. Dd doesn't intend to have anyone 
lower than an AD talk to transition folks. Frankly, I'd prefer he do 

all the engage ment, but that's not feasible. _ 

Oh. Thought you meant this case. 


You have names? 


Not yet. knows to email me here. 


Oh, sorry. No, I meant transition writ large. Sorry for the confusion. 


Still talking with Many transition issues to talk with you about 


We'll get there ;)\n\nYou willing to set up lunch for me and 
and you t o introduce us to to talk about C? 

Call you a minute? 

Bill stuck his head in, said travel as early as tomorrow. Didn't get 
detail as I was in a mtg and he went upstairs to 


God, I hate academics. Lots on the big bad fbi litigation with apple. 


It's making me very angry. 


BBC News: Trump and Putin hold telephone talks\nTrump and 
Putin hold telephone talks-http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us- 

canada-37981770 _ 

CNN news crawl says source reports Trump wants Top Secret 

clearance for his children __ 

Bill out of the office tonight, btw. So if you need him, call cell, or 

call me. _ 

"CNN: Source says naming a Trump national security team a 'knife 
fight'"_ 


Christ. What does that mean?! 

I can only guess difference of opinion between Trump and 

Republican establishment? _ 

I get it. I'm just exclaiming how f-ed it all is. 

Problem is, I don’t know if that's it. I just have no idea... 


My god, Sessions for DoD or AG. 
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01:52:20, Tue 

INBOX 

And if goes AG, then bolsters the Giuliani State idea 

2016-11-15 

01:52:29, Tue 

OUTBOX 

The same article you referenced. 

2016-11-15 

01:52:44, Tue 

OUTBOX 

It also says either Bolton or Giuliani for state. 

2016-11-15 

01:56:53, Tue 

INBOX 

Ha. States going to EXPLODE 

2016-11-15 

02:06:05, Tue 

INBOX 

What page you on? 

2016-11-15 

02:06:37, Tue 

OUTBOX 

15. You distracted me with the news. 

2016-11-15 

11:56:44, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, and then the Deputy Director told you to go to London on 24 
hours notice. 

2016-11-16 
08:25:18, Wed 

OUTBOX 

An article to share: How Bannon flattered and coaxed Trump on 
policies key to the a!t'-right\nHow Bannon flattered and coaxed 
Trump on policies key to the alt-right\nhttp://wapo.st/2fDJCSV 

2016-11-16 

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2016-11-16 

21:27:29, Wed 

INBOX 

You, your age, plans after Andy goes, how to keep talent in the Bu. 

2016-11-17 
09:27:46, Thu 

OUTBOX 

God, this is scary. He apparently has not reached out to state at all 
for briefing materials. \U0001f612\n\nNYTimes: How Shinzo Abe 
Will Try to Size Up Donald Trump\nHow Shinzo Abe Will Try to Size 
Up Donald Trump http://nvti.ms/2elhGiP 

2016-11-17 

09:33:36, Thu 

INBOX 

@ H/ @Yep. And the reason he wanted clearances for the kids is so 
Jared Kushner could receive the PDB with him. Legally,! think he 
can pretty much designate w 

2016-11-17 
09:33:39, Thu 

INBOX 

@ H/ @hoever he wants to receive it without a clearance.. 

2016-11-17 
09:34:27, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Article today is saying none of that is going to happen. 

2016-11-17 

09:35:46, Thu 

INBOX @ P/ @1 know he backed off of clearances, but there was another 

legal piece looking at his authority to just grant access, and it's 
pretty broad.\n\nAnd, 1 don't 

2016-11-17 
09:35:52, Thu 

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09:35:52, Thu 

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@ ?/ @ think he has any idea what he's doing from one day to the 
next. 

2016-11-17 
19:22:30, Thu 

INBOX 

Re your email, know briefed Pence, right 

Gust so there are no surprises)? 

2016-11-17 
19:23:24, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 don't know if they would recall who did, but they know we sent 
someone. 1 spoke to about it. We both think there's no action 

for us to take. 

2016-11-17 

19:32:32, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Re above re email, it might be more important for to know 

that, briefed Pence, no? 

2016-11-17 
19:33:48, Thu 

INBOX 

1 think that's a good idea. I'll talk with so they build 

messaging/don't overlap 

2016-11-17 

19:46:00, Thu 

INBOX 

Harumph. 1 want to see you. Is Andy on/regular length wrap? 

2016-11-17 

19:46:19, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Yes, so far as 1 know. 


INBOX 

Talking with Bill. Do we want to go with instead of 

for a variety of reasoms? 


OUTBOX 

Hmm. Not sure. Would it be unusual to have show up again? 

Maybe another agent from the team? 

2016-11-17 
19:49:43, Thu 

. 

INBOX 

Or, he's "the Cl guy." Same.might make sense. He can assess if 
thete are any news Qs, or different demeanor. If husband is 

there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential 
relationships 

2016-11-17 

19:50:33, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Should 1 ask Andy about it? Or Bill want to reach out for andy? 

2016-11-17 
19:52:09, Thu 

INBOX 

1 told him I'm sure we could ask you to make the swap if we 
thought it was smart. It's not until Mon so Bill can always discuss 
with him tomorrow. 

2016-11-17 
19:53:02, Thu 

OUTBOX 

It's the regular mtg with Jim and Andy. 

2016-11-17 
19:54:54, Thu 

INBOX 

Oh. No you cant. WAH-wah. 


2016-11-18 

01:12:18, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Ha. This gave me a chuckle.\n\nNYTimes: A Trumpian Silver 
Lining\nATrumpian Silver Lining http://nyti.ms/2f37625 

2016-11-18 

01:47:35, Fri 

INBOX 

Nope. Fixed it. Fly Tues, arr Wed. Meet Thurs and Fri. Fly back Sat. 
All that assuming the other side can do those dates. 

2016-11-18 

11:18:07, Fri 

INBOX 

Was just reading NYT. Apparently 
Mike Rogers has been to NY to visit Trump 

2016-11-18 
12:40:45, Fri 

INBOX 

Sessions for AG 

2016-11-18 

12:49:19, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Good god. 

2016-11-18 

21:22:11, Fri 

INBOX 

Disagree with Bill on last topic 

2016-11-18 

21:45:39, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Just hit you in lync but need to go see andy 

2016-11-18 

21:48:17, Fri 

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Is Moffa there? 1 have a MYE q for him. 

2016-11-18 

21:49:23, Fri 

INBOX 

No. Don't know where he is what's the Q? 

2016-11-18 
22:15:46, Fri 

INBOX 

Also, pis ask Andy for the name of the 6 woman, 1 didn't write it 
down. Thank you 

2016-11-18 

22:43:26, Fri 

OUTBOX 

? 

2016-11-18 

22:43:44, Fri 

OUTBOX 

He said just use 

2016-11-19 

00:37:40, Sat 

INBOX 

And hey just talked to Boone have clarity on the Errant email 1 sent 
you, what said to Andy, questions Andy asked Boone about 

it, and answers. 

2016-11-19 

00:41:10, Sat 

INBOX 

Finally, let me know if 1 can imsg you a question 

2016-11-21 
01:14:10, Mon 

OUTBOX 

This is really disgusting. \n\nNYTimes: White Nationalists Celebrate 
\u2018an Awakening\u2019 After Donald Trump\u2019s 
Victory\nWhite Nationalists Celebrate \u2018an Awakening\u2019 
After Donald Trump\u2019s Victory http://nyti.ms/2fc6vve 

2016-11-21 

01:19:38, Mon 

INBOX 

Im worried racial tension is going to get really bad... 

2016-11-21 

01:19:45, Mon 

INBOX 

And god that was a depressing article 

2016-11-21 

17:24:07, Mon 

INBOX 

Trump spokesman declines to back FBI Director James Comey - The 
Washington 

Post\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump- 
spokesman-declines-to-back-fbi-director-james- 
comey/2016/ll/21/e9cde350-afe5-lle6-8616- 
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2016-11-21 

23:00:25, Mon 

INBOX 

You gong past you old office after talking to Andy? 

• 

2016-11-22 
10:55:20, Tue 

INBOX 

• 

I have to study up for the briefing this afternoon 

2016-11-22 

10:56:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 didn't realize you guys weren't ready to give it. You should have 
said something. 

2016-11-22 

10:57:47, Tue 

INBOX 

It's really overdue. And if Mike is briefing it, wrong, and if Di is 
trying to charge out and do dumb things, we need to do it. 

2016-11-22 

10:58:26, Tue 

OUTBOX 

True. 

2016-11-22 

11:10:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

God, there's just so much to be wary of.\n\nNYTimes: Build He 
Won\u2019t\nBuild He Won\u2019t http://nyti.ms/2eWb0Pu 

2016-11-22 
11:19:15, Tue 

INBOX 

Do you have a SATO travel account? 

2016-11-22 

OUTBOX 

1 need DD ofc to pay, right? That's annoying. Don't need and 


11:20:10, Tue 


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No, use CD codes. Who's your on paper supervisor? 

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May come out of ogc, 1 don't know. Worse case, if it does, put 
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Need to get you a Sato account ASAP. You can do on the phone but 
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It's not fair for it to come out of ogc. 1 guess 1 want dd ofc to pay. 

It's only fair. 

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Maybe 1 have one. You'll have to help me figure out when 1 get in 

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CD is the right place. It's our business and we have a comparatively 
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Thats one thing THAT Is Going To Suck 

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ABOUT MY New office, EVERY ONE Will KNOW HOW Late 1 Get in. 1 
stav late, so it shouldn't matter but still. 

2016-11-22 

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You in yet? Want to talk briefing structure as 1 am befuddled. 

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No. On way now. 

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Ok. Bill is aggravating me about the D brief tomorrow. He wants 
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Well that's his perogative 1 guess. It represents a strange change. 
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No. 1 assume it’s to take work off my plate. He said, since Jon's not 
in. I'll do it. But 1 had been doing all of CH when Jon was focusing 
on the broader election stuff. 1 need to talk to him 

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And 1 gave the D a summary of all of it last week with Andy just 
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In with andy 

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Oh. You going to be out before the 2? I'm SUPER curious about JR'S 
5% worry - didn't hear what he said and didn't feel it was 
appropriate to scream, like an old deaf man, WHAT? 

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Aggravated talking with Bill about the brief tomorrow morning but 
that will be fine. Baker going to be there? 

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Sheesh. Bill get in touch with andy? 

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2016-11-24 OUTBOX I am reading. Started All the President's Men. 

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2016-11-24 OUTBOX Pretty good so far. Just started, so only a few pages in. The 

02:12:50, Thu press focus is going to be annoying, especially knowing how 

obnoxious and self-righteous they both turned out to be. 

2016-11-24 OUTBOX Just sent you Andy’s response. It makes me happy. 

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2016-11-24 INBOX That was a very nice response from. Andy 

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2016-11-24 OUTBOX ~ lYeah. It made me happy. 

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You see Trump chose a Fox News analyst as his Dep Ntnl Security 
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Yep. Meeting with Jon and and tomorrow to decide what 

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At which point I’ll direct everyone to take the Tuesday daytime 
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And anticipate that means she will hang on Tues...all expected, 1 
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Maybe re Tuesday. She might do touristy things though, since it's 
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and jon and the rest of them should be encouraged to take 
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Hey do you know why Bill was talking to Jim? 

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I’ll try and find out, re Bill. A bit concerning. 

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Also, jason herring spoke to me tonight about needing to get the 
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God, the mye letters re Andy ask for SOOOOOO much information. 
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Can we tailor what we send, ie, give them some subset of what 
they're asking for? 


We're going to have to. 


Oof. Which letter (s), (or tabs in the binder)? 



I'm going to meet with Andy at 5:30 about it. 
And all good on both prep sessions tomorrow :) 


Haven't met with andy yet. He is still in with the director. 

How long you think you'll be with him? (Rough guess - 30 min? 

Hour and a half?) _ 

Probably 45 minutes at least. 

Sorry. Was in with andy. 

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And I keep thinking about what the Dsaid, what was it, sick to 
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Technically not sure you can talk to andy about it. \U0001f621 

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Yeah well Jims too blindly boyscoutish and others not thoughtful so 

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\U0001f636 Thanks. 

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Boo. Stopped by your office before ead wrap and no Lisa... :( 

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Sorry. Was in with andy. 

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Wrap niw. 

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And 1 keep thinking about what the D said, what was it, sick to 
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Mildly nauseous, he said. 

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Technically not sure you can talk to andy about it. \U0001f621 

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F that 1 cant 

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I'm just saying... 

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Yeah well and others not thoughtful 

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Hi. Just leaving. Infuriating story from Bill, can tell you tomorrow 
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Feel free to imsg. 

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Weird about the clock. Thats interesting. Tells me how.much of 
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minutes of talking to Bill last night. Full page with list of things 
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Awesome. 

Last night, I talked with Bill before leaving. Very first thing he did 
was show me a page of notes, bullets, he had written about 


Oh jeez. 

Bill is just not getting it. \U0001f612 


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Exactly. It IS awful. But it's not something we can do something 
about without grave risk. Andy and I talked about this piece of it 
too the other day. He'll discuss today I expect. 

Bill moved wrap up to 3. Will hit you when done. 

Okay, coming back. 


Oh. Thought I was supposed to leave. 


Want me to come back? 


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Oh. Yes, that's right. I probably wasn't listening. :D 


EXACTLY 


Be right there :D 


Ok that didn't take long, I'm bored let me know when I can come 


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Ho boy. This is going to stir up some sh*t\n\nNYTimes: Trump 
Speaks With Taiwan\u2019s Leader, a Likely Affront to 
China\nTrump Speaks With Taiwan\u2019s Leader, a Likely 

Affront to China http://nvti.ms/2ewshOM 

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1 know. 1 saw. Idiots... 

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We need to talk about this in the context of the testimony last 
Friday. And 1 need to ask Jason to get a transcript if he can. 
\n\nNYTimes: Russia Hacked Republican Committee, U.S. 
Concludes\nRussia Hacked Republican Committee, U.S. Concludes 
http://nvti.ms/2h5Xooi 

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17:42:20, Sat 

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Had an hour long convo with Bill. Talked about the meeting (they 
had it at DoJ, Bill, Jim and Jon), expressed our frustration, Bill 
responded. \n\nTalked about and WFO SAC job, what I 

expected, and >aying which is fine, you know the 

conflicted way 1 feel about that but it is what it is. Mike said 
something super irritating to Bill, essentially, Pete briefs well but 
he needs more time to demonstrate his ability to manage. Bill 
said he thought that was just a fig leaf for saying out it 

aggravates me. I'm sorry, I'm not briefing what someone tells me, 
I'm briefing what I'm doing. And I'm managing (for the case) a ton 
of people in various divisions and multiple agencies and foreign 
governments. Not to menion the issues I've briefed you on and 
am managing for cd3, etc. \n\ni do think it's a fig leaf, but have 
the balls to say, Pete, you're doing a great job. Keep it up. Youve 
just gotten promoted, twice, and we need you as a DAD where 
you can do good: embrace that role. DON'T tell me, you brief well 
but you need to show me some more management skill. F you. 1 
manage my ass off every goddamn day in this sh*tstorm, and 
keep the branch running to boot. 

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Lots more to discuss. 

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17:46:16, Sat 

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That is 100% a fig leaf. And more than a fig leaf, it's a reflection of 
insecurity and arrogant overconfidence. Don't give it a 
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Was Bill's response re meeting adequate? 

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But how much does his saying that translate to the other EADs? 

out the door, as Is but 1 don't want aolsoned 

by it. Think I'm good witf and just with more time. 

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It was OK. 1 told him we heard via / and that we were 

all disappointed. He said he understood, but he was able to talk 
that way broadly without giving any specifics, so he thinks it 
helped rather than hurt. Said we hadn't closed anything, and 
generally talked about our path forward. Said they didn't ask for 
an update when we got back, and that he thought we were in a 
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I know, but I told Bill I really needed him to determine whether or 
not I should even put in, and the message it sends either way. He 

said he would talk to Andy this week. _ 

It won't. Stop worrying. Trust me.\n\nlf you had more time as 
DAD under your belt, do you actually think would even 
stand a chance because of some bs claim that you need more 
proven leadership? Because that happened when you both were 
up for DAD? Come on. It's face-saving for pure and simple. 


The answer is no, Pete. 100% no. Andy will say the same. 


)f Thus came up in the context of bill asking about a 

for who deserves it, and Bill was told no. I assume 

/ould be a different answer for So I need to talk to 

:o see if he'd be interested in an SC job in CD, because he'd 


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1 think Is interested, too, based on convos we've had. 1 don't 

know whether to put him in 4 or 2. Don't think he has the Cl 
background for 3. 

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problem is he's never even been an SSA. 

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People obviously understand he's now been both dgc and ad of 
oca, but stuff like that matters. 

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That's a different conversation, and one he can have not in this 
context. Or even better, one YOU should have with Andy. It would 
be more meaningful that way anyway. "Andy, I'm not putting in 
for sac, but where do you see me... Especially since 1 heard 
criticism of me from Mike which 1 didn't think was fair, wanted to 
make sure you didn't think that was widely thought..."\n\n2. 

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Most importantly, as far as I'm concerned, he's a good guy and 1 
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It does. That's why he won't be allowed to advance. 

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1 didn't tell you the grown up convo 1 had to have with in 

London, when he asked and got angry at why 1 was likely not to be 
the next SAC, and had to be the calm measured professional 
explaining all the reasons why not. 

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got angry? Understandable, but I'm proud of you for 
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Yes he did. You know how 1 feel. 1 believe it, just as 1 believe had 1 
not applied for or applied for and not gotten the DAD job, that 1 
would have a great shot at it. And that 1 believe I'm the best 
person for both jobs, and ultimately, the best to be Bill's successor 
in CD. 

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All of that is correct. You just can't move having been DAD for 
three months. If you had stayed SC, you would be SAC. And you 
will be AD too. 

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If 1 stay long enough or am willing to move, for sure. But neither ol 
those are necessarily true. But nothing 1 can do but work hard and 
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That's the right attitude. 1 just hope you believe it in your heart of 
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You know im conflicted! To show my muddle, think of it this 
alternative way: I've now been back at HQ for 16 months. Had 

John G not been gone all the time and the board gone earlier, 1 
would have been an SESer for over a year now. Woulda coulda 
shoulda, 1 know. \n\nHow long was Jason acting? 

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Acting AD? Since August, 1 think. 

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It's not long enough in your current role. And christ, you're NEED 
in this role. Way more than you'd need to be as SAC. Just relax, 

It will come. I promise you. _ 

I'm not needed. I need to show I can effectively manage. 

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Wish wouldn't have said anything about that, or called 
BS 

Cause this is going to sit in the back of my head like a festering 

pile of crap. _ 

Peter. In the immortal words of Jim Baker/Taylor Swift: Haters 

gonna h a te...shake it off, shake it off. \U0001f60a _ 

Don't let it. Do you respect 

And how did that guidance work for you?\n\nEnough. I thought at 
least we had a decent relationship he would say that sort of BS. I 

get his faults, but still. Just say the truth. _ 

He's too arrogant. He can't see the truth. 

I haven't worked closely with him enough to see that 


And maybe vaguely related, man I'm angry the way worked 

out. That article is horrible. _ 

Oh please. I'm calling BS on you respect him. I don't. What non- 
critical thing have you ever had to say about him?\n\nAnd yes, 

probably related. \U(J0Ulf512 _ 

A) I think he does a decent job advocating for CD in front of 

audiences like the SAC conference. _ 

Okay, great. Mad props to him then. \U0001f612 

A) fine. Look, I'm obviously cranky/stung/demotivated by it. 


Just talked with Jon for an hour. 


Back to being a little cranky with Bill about the meeting. Jon asked 
Bill on Thurs if it was still on. Bill told him to talk to him Fri AM. 

Jon said JB was really good at the mtg, kept saying, we don't know 
or we're not going to discuss that. He's obviously as worried as he 

was. _ 

Plus remind me stories of iod f'ing up visit with Andy and 

I can talk if you want. Have 10 minutes or so. 

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Npr just reported that that ExxonMobil guy possibly nominated 
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Oh yeah! He got an Award of Friendship directly from Putin! 

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Interesting choice for Sec State then. 

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Yep! He's 64, and has spent 41 of them at Exxon. Started as a 
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world. Statecraft. 

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Great. This sentence aggravated the s out of me. \nTrump has 
threatened a lot of people and he\u2019s about to be in control 
of the most pervasive and least accountable surveillance 
infrastructure in the world,\u201d Mr. Marlinspike said. \u201cA 
lot of people are justifiably concerned about 
that.\u201d\n\nNYTimes: Worried About the Privacy of Your 
Messages? Download Signal\nWorried About the Privacy of Your 
Messages? Download Signal http://nyti.ms/2hjyWo 

sms 

2016-12-11 

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Yeah, me too. Don't know who or where to support.... 

sms 

2016-12-12 

11:36:37, Mon 

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God.\n\nln separately irritating news,JB apparently offered to 
meet with David Kendall and his secretary set it up. None of us, 
including heard anything about it until mentioned it 

to us. 

sms 

2016-12-12 

11:37:18, Mon 

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Possihlv today. Possibly about return of evidence. Possibly he'll 
take along. Possibly he'll want to do some prep. None of us 

really know. \U0001f612 

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2016-12-12 

11:37:35, Mon 

INBOX 

Maybe it came up at the Fri meeting none of us attended. 

sms 

2016-12-12 

11:41:37, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Then somebody whose name is not Lisa Page needs to tell him 
that it is insulting to have to learn about important meetings from 
DOJ. 

sms 

2016-12-12 

11:43:14, Mon 

INBOX 

1 will. 1 don't thin! can in the same way. 

sms 

2016-12-12 

11:43:41, Mon 

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After 1 find out if Bill and/or Jon knew 

sms 

2016-12-12 

11:44:00, Mon 

INBOX 

Though neither mentioned. 

sms 

2016-12-12 

20:32:25, Mon 

INBOX 

1 talked to Bill about the CyD matter we discussed, he said Andy is 
aware.\n\nThank you for stepping out to grab the lifesavers. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

19:57:40, Tue 

INBOX 

What floor is jcc? 

sms 

2016-12-13 

19:58:44, Tue 

OUTBOX 

6 or 7. On the 9th Street side. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

19:59:15, Tue 

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Oh. Thought it was 10th...you sure? 

sms 

2016-12-13 

20:30:29, Tue 

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Sorry. Was on with the intercept. Yeah, Mike just mentioned. 
Something sanctioned, obviously. God, 1 hate the intercept. 

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Coffee /tea?\n\nStories for you. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

21:03:21, Tue 

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Let me know when you're done, want to hear about it, obviously 

sms 

2016-12-13 

21:36:50, Tue 

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Need to talk to you before wrap 

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2016-12-13 

22:31:53, Tue 

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Who is: | 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:34:06, Tue 

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No idea. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:34:33, Tue 

INBOX 

These texts are quite the. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:35:24, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You're killing me. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:36:01, Tue 

INBOX 

Text from reporter: retrieving my password for skype. 1 forgot 
it.\n\nText from reporter an hour and 31 minutes later: thanks 
man. Awesome as usual 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:36:26, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Jesus. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:37:23, Tue 

INBOX 

And Oh. I'm literally on the 5th line of a 2417 line spreadsheet. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:42:07, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm calling now. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:43:28, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Wtf, where'd you go? 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:44:38, Tue 

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In with Bill an dads 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:45:00, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Aaarggh. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:54:05, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'm going to try to leave as soon as 1 get 5 minutes with andy. The 
d had wrap. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:55:03, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Jm said that the D asked Dd about the phone records pull today. 

So 1 am going to mention it, but no details. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

22:55:12, Tue 

INBOX 

K. Bill is rambling. I'll let you know when done 

sms 

2016-12-13 

23:17:22, Tue 

INBOX 

Hi. You in with him? 

sms 

2016-12-13 

23:18:17, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Still waiting for him to get out. \U0001f621 

sms 

2016-12-13 

23:21:14, Tue 

INBOX 

Talked with DoJ about HA interview. Told them we had to 
interview, no immunity. They said they thought that would get 
counsel to the point of saying she's either taking the 5th in the Gj 
or you need to give her immunity. 1 said that's fine, please have 
discussions to get the decision to that point and 1 would run up 
the chain 

sms 

2016-12-13 

23:21:41, Tue 

INBOX 

hen asked if Toscas should call Mike, as that was his 
understanding of who his new POC was on this case. 

sms 

2016-12-13 

23:21:50, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Do 1 need to bring up to andy at some point? 

sms 

2016-12-13 

23:22:03, Tue 

INBOX 

1 said Bill would be better, but that 1 needed to run past Bill to see 
what he says 

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Is he recused? (\U0001f621\U0001f621) 

Oh yeah. I forgot. \U0001f621\U0001f612 


Yes! All mye matters. 

Double \U0001f621\U0001f612\U0001f621\U0001f612 
I know. 

I'm just angry about it. 

Me too. 

I fell into the same, what in the hell are you talking about Mike as 
POC mental trap \U0001f621_ 


Literally wondered if Andy had finally decided to delegate down 

management of George _ 

I kinda want to print these logs out and take them home :D 


No kidding. Will figure out a day to work late. 


Ok, I need to go back in with Bill. Jen and Dina still there. Call me 
later....particularly interested if D gave a fuller description of his 

convo^with Brennan_ 

Shocker, problems in ny. 

It you get done and have Bill and Jon tor a dump about last eve, 
please call me.... 

Sorry one sec. 

K. Talking with Bill about you, actually 


Hmmm. 

Just called your desk 

Was talking to bill. He is calling me back when he is done with 

you. _ 

Let me know what he says. I was surprised how hard he pushed 
me to think about it. The strength of my reaction to that is kinda 

confirming to me I don't want to. _ 

Oh god Susan Collis comments on npr.... 

said absolutely no question I have to be on the team. I'm so 

confused right now... _ 

Really?!?! 


As in, with her? 









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And that's what I wanted to talk about!!!!\n\nMy answer is no 

way, sac then AD and lead the Division _ 

And then I think.. 


A case which will be in the history books. A chapter - much like 
you tell me about my extra time in the field and all the cases 
("would you trade it"?). \n\nA million people sit in AD and staff 
jobs. This is a chance to DO. In maybe the most important case of 

our live s._ 

What did Andy say about going? 

No way dude. I really don't think you should do it.. 

You would obviously excel on the team, \n\nln a thousand ways 

they n eed someon e EXACTLY like you _ 

I don't really know what she meant when she said on the team. 
Full time, part time, I got home so our convo was cut short. 

Why? I don't understand what they need me for! Not when they 
have someone like Aaron. Or or 


And oaid some really outrageous complements to me. I just 

don't get what she even means. 


Ok I obviously want to hear what said 

I won't be able to repeat. Something about being the second 
smartest lawyer she has ever worked with besides comey. It can't 

b e true. _ 

And how I lean in and have a stronger work ethic than anyone she 

k nows. And more but I don't remember. _ _ 

You're in an entirely different class than or 



You see the future. You assimilate and combine things in am 
uncanny way. 


And re your attorney image of yourself, that's because you equate 
brilliant lawyer with or Trisha sitting in a room writing 

something as a clerk. \n\nREAL law is the application in a 
complex, dynamic environment. And you're astoundingly good at 
that 


Plus you have passion and curiosity, which is more than half of the 

battle anyway _^_ 

I am so not in a different class from and That is crazy. 

They don't get the big picture like you do is operationally 
amazing. But scaling law up rapidly and with agility is something 
that makes you special. THAT'S the mark of a brilliant mind. 

For me, and this case, I personally have a sense of unfinished 
business, \n\nl unleashed it with MYE. Now i need to fix it and 
finish it 


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00:45:57, Fri 

OUTBOX 

We should stop having this conversation here. Just tell bill you 
need another day and we can discuss tomorrow. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:47:33, Fri 

OUTBOX 

And certainly, that would certainly impact my thinking too. We 
can't work closely on another case again, though obviously, 1 want 
vou to do what is right for vou. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:54:23, Fri 

INBOX 

A) ok. Though now I'm curious.\n\nB) sigh. Yeah 1 suppose that's 
right. But god we're a good team. \U0001f636\U0001fS14 Is that 
playing into yur decision/your advice to me? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:54:34, Fri 

INBOX 

Chaffetz stepping down June 30.... 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:55:13, Fri 

OUTBOX 

No. Not at all. 1 just think we are both ready for a change. Truly. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:55:59, Fri 

OUTBOX 

A) is just about the different realistic outcomes of this case. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:56:37, Fri 


B) that's definitely true. 1 want/need you to give me your old 
resume. \n\nC) 1 think I'll wait and see what happens with sac 
wfo. I'm not expecting to get it, 1 just want to see what 1 feel like 




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after the decision. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:57:39, Fri 

INBOX 

A) you and 1 both know the odds are nothing. If 1 thought it was 
likely, I'd be there no question. 1 hesitate in part because of my 
gut sense and concern there's no big there there. 

sms 

2017-05-19 
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A) Pete. Let's talk about this tomorrow. \U0001f621 

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2017-05-19 

00:58:59, Fri 

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Regardless of the outcome, 1 think there's a certain savvy business 
decision for you to do it \n\n600k/year + doing white hat 
corporate investigations isn't a bad exit strategy. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:59:12, Fri 

OUTBOX 

C) Is that going tomorrow? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

00:59:52, Fri 

INBOX 

A) fine! Didn't think 1 said anything wrong. But fine. \nC) yep. Is 
Andy going to the board? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

01:00:40, Fri 

INBOX 

C) 1 suppose he can't. He has to sign as D so 1 don't know if that 
means he can't chair the board. 

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Don't know. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

01:01:06, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Have to go eat. Talk to you tomorrow 

sms 

2017-05-19 

01:01:30, Fri 

INBOX 

K. Bye, Lisa. Hope some sleep brings clarity. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

02:15:28, Fri 

INBOX 

If 1 don't go, does that make your decision easier? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

02:17:18, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Nope. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

02:20:20, Fri 

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I'm struggling 

sms 

2017-05-19 

02:23:22, Fri 

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1 honestly think the break will be rejuvenating. 

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2017-05-19 

02:24:46, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Want to talk to Andy? Be honest that you're worried about your 
future with D and him gone? Be honest that if you don't get AD, 
you'd rather just finish out your career doing work you love? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

02:33:23, Fri 

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Maybe. But 1 don't want to before the board, \n\nl just want to 
make a difference. To have counted for something, to be in the 
game, down by one. \n\nWhy such a desire to prove myself? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

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And 1 know you deal with it with me all the time, so you're inured, 
in a different spot...but it was wrong, injust, even - for me to not 
be there today. \n\nYou may not get it. \n\nJon does.\n\nWhat 
was thinking? Where was that in talking to his boss?\n\nDid 

you care once you got an invite? (be brutally honest no you 
didn't)\n\nAnd that may make my decision. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

03:28:55, Fri 

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1 deserved a chance to see these people, to see if 1 wanted to go 
with them 

sms 

2017-05-19 

09:42:32, Fri 

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4:45 and still no better answer. Just trying to get the 
angry/cranky/whiny out of my thinking. 1 need to objectively see 
the issue and set it, sterile, on a shelf. Sorry about my second to 
last text last night. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

10:07:08, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 get that you should have been there! Geez Pete. 

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2017-05-19 

10:18:02, Fri 

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1 know! 1 was grumpiness. \n\nAnd 1 figured out what's behind 
that (which we said yesterday), but been thinking in terms of how 
that impacts my decision. Not for here, though. \n\nYou sleep at 
all? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

10:26:58, Fri 

INBOX 

You wake up with a better sense of what you want to do? 

sms 

2017-05-19 

10:41:08, Fri 

OUTBOX 

No. I'm just going to have to feel it out. Probably talk to 

more. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

10:41:30, Fri 

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I'll be in the car at 710 be 1 have to meet if you want to talk. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

10:43:28, Fri 

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1 do. Ok let me hustle. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

17:31:37, Fri 

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So did convince you? ;) 

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Remind me 

sms 

2017-05-19 

23:39:47, Fri 

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What about for the project? 

sms 

2017-05-19 


Will explain why later. He thinks 


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2017-05-19 

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Bill threw out 1 wasn't real excited. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

23:44:16, Fri 

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Nope. Me neither. No strategic thinking. 

sms 

2017-05-19 

23:44:18, Fri 

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Well that's just dumb. He heard Director Comey's statement 
about what we're trying to achieve, right?\n\nAnyway. Try to not 
dwell on all this. \n\nGetting stuff ready to go out the 
door...\n\r U0001f60a 

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2017-05-19 

23:47:39, Fri 

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said, immediately, that sounds like an offer you must accept. 
He wants me to. 

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2017-05-19 

23:48:29, Fri 

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That's really good! Im glad. That from him must be a relief for 
you, right? 

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2017-05-19 

23:48:45, Fri 

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1 REALLY like your 30 day idea. 

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2017-05-19 

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1 guess. 

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2017-05-19 

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America needs you, Lis. \U0001f60a 

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2017-05-20 

1 Hi. How are you feeling about things?\n\n 


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2017-05-21 

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You don't have to move your office (1 mean, obviously you'll be 
working out of the SC space) do you? At least you can put that 
decision off for a while?\n\nYou feeling any different about it this 
morning? 

sms 

2017-05-21 

13:26:13, Sun 

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No, 1 just need to figure out what 1 need to hand off, clean up a 
little. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

13:27:36, Sun 

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No, I'm still really stressed out. 1 feel like an imposter. There's no 
way 1 can live up to their expectations. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

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Lis. You're gonna be great. Of all the things to worry about, your 
competence isn't one of then. Promise. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

13:52:05, Sun 

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But I'm not a real lawyer anymore! They have no idea. 

\U0001f615 

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2017-05-21 

13:58:08, Sun 

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You have government savvy. And know the Bu. And 1C. You're 
going to be great. \U0001f60a 

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2017-05-21 

14:09:52, Sun 

INBOX 

Did Aaron say they want you primarily for criminal prosecutor 
stuff, or is that you worrying? 

sms 

2017-05-21 

14:10:41, Sun 

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Me worrying. But 1 have the same job that they do so 1 mean 1 feel 
like it is founded. 

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Driving to work. In business wear. Because Mueller. \U0001f610 

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Oh lord. You meeting them? 

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And Lisa. Aaron's time as an AUSA was about equivalent to your 
OCRS time. \n\nYou bring law and knowledge they can hope to 
get. It will be fine. 1 promise. You'll beam integral part of the 
team before the end of the month. Promise promise promise. 
You're a rock star, \U0001f60a 

sms 

2017-05-21 

15:47:56, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Man, I'm frustrated re Andy and Carl. That may be the hardest 
thing moving forward. Will be at the ofc for hours if you free up to 
chat. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

15:48:21, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Aaron did a LOT more in that time than 1 did. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

15:50:38, Sun 

INBOX 

1 would be too. You shul talk with Andy about it, even of its some 
time from now. But part of me really thinks should should before 
\n\nOk I'll try and leave a little early, 

maybe 1220 or so.\n\nAaron did different. You're going to be 
solid. I'm telling you, Lisa. It's normal and appropriate to feel not 
on par (I'd worry if you didn't), but you're going to be spectacular. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

15:53:12, Sun 

INBOX 

Actually 1 may be able to call in a couple, standby 

sms 

2017-05-21 

16:36:38, Sun 

INBOX 

Hey parking should be free after 130-140 or 

so. I'll call then if you can talk. 

sms 

2017-05-21 
17:10:26, Sun 

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Had excellent convo with Andy. Let me know when you are done. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

17:31:31, Sun 

INBOX 

Done. Just tried calling your desk. 

sms 

2017-05-21 
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OUTBOX 

Grabbing food. One sec. 

sms 

2017-05-21 


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2017-05-21 

18:15:56, Sun 

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1 told Aaron let's see how this might goes, then decide whether it 
makes sense for Bob to talk to andy. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:16:32, Sun 

INBOX 

Might = week? 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:17:04, Sun 

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1 think that's smart. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:18:28, Sun 

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Sorry mtg. Was an autocoreect. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:18:47, Sun 

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Except even the new phone can't correct autocorrect. 

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2017-05-21 

18:20:46, Sun 

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Mtg is one you're having tomorrow? Regardless, yes, meet with 
the team and get a sense if you all feel comfortable if you're on 
the right path. \n\nYeah these suck *ss. Of course it's the entire 
brand. died as well. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:26:50, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I'm not in it, but a mtg with Carl and zebley and 1 think Bill. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:42:18, Sun 

INBOX 

Tomorrow? 

sms 

2017-05-21 

18:45:21, Sun 

INBOX 

Yep let's see. 1 can envision the end state following the mooting, 
but let thines run their course. One thing 1 (we) know is will 
not buck 

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You still at wotk? Just left you a vm. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

19:08:22, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Got your vm. 1 'm at my desk. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

19:14:45, Sun 

INBOX 

Just tried 

sms 

2017-05-21 

19:27:01, Sun 

INBOX 

Hey called again sorry 1 missed you. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

19:33:28, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Sorry. Went in with Andy again. 

sms 

2017-05-21 

19:36:56, Sun 

INBOX 

Np. Just staffing thoughts. 1 think Carl and Bill are too far removed 
from working at that level to know. \n\nOne of the advantages 1 
have from big a glorified case agent. \U0001f612 

sms 

2017-05-21 

20:03:42, Sun 

INBOX 

And hey, fwiw, following the announcement of wf sac (and 
assuming 1 don't get it), 1 still think 1 want to talk to Andy, if only to 
discuss what you and i talked about. My worry is he's so damn 
busy right now 1 don't want to impose on his time. But i AM 
worried what the future holds with the dynamics changing.... 

sms 

2017-05-23 

18:28:58, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And I'm not sitting in on this meeting now. \U0001f612 Honestly, 
I'm really not sure 1 want this. Am waiting for our team to arrive, 
then I'm going to walk back and I'll call... 

sms 

2017-05-23 

19:07:26, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey just missed you 

sms 

2017-05-23 

19:07:42, Tue 

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Stopped by your office, too 

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2017-05-23 

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Stay there, I'm coming up. 1 was on 4. 

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2017-05-23 

20:50:53, Tue 

INBOX 

Can you talk? Jon needs to cancel hpsci tomorrow so we can meet 
with Bob. He's going to talk to Beth to do so. 

sms 

2017-05-23 

21:25:44, Tue 

INBOX 

So this drives me nuts - just had the most collegial convo with Carl 
(since 1 left your office) weird 

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Yes, it's an honor to be asked, but so what. 1 
don't want to live constantly straddling two worlds. 

sms 

2017-05-24 

00:02:12, Wed 

INBOX 

That's a very valid concern. You truly will never get this time back, 
ever.\n\nAnd 1 have no way to predict what the schedule will look 
like. The only thing 1 can tell you is the best predictor is there past, 
and both Bob and Aaron are tremendous Workaholics. Both 

demanding. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
00:02:49, Wed 

INBOX 

Have you had a conversation with Aaron about what his hours 
have been like this past week? If he's working until 9 or 10, that 
says something. If they're all leaving at 6, that says another. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
00:03:51, Wed 

INBOX 

My worry is that all these attorneys that they're bringing from the 
private sector will be used to long hours, because they're used to 
law firm salaries. They won't mind missing the money, but will 
bring that same expectation of long long hours. 

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weekend. 

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2017-05-24 
00:10:41, Wed 

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Sigh. That's what 1 was afraid of. Are you locked in with Baker if 
something happens to Andy? 

sms 

2017-05-24 

00:18:32, Wed 

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So long as baker stays, yes. 

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2017-05-24 
00:37:01, Wed 

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1 really don't want to do this. 1 see myself growing more resolute 
about that with this time away. 

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2017-05-24 

00:38:15, Wed 

INBOX 

I'm proud of you. \n\nln a million ways, I'm proud of you, and 
admire you. \n\nAnd please take that in the context of me having 
that pride without any obligation from you, any expectation of 
needing to live up to it. anything else. Just :) 

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2017-05-24 

00:38:34, Wed 

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Then all the more reason to have that time. 

sms 

2017-05-24 

00:40:18, Wed 

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So if you really do want to join the team, don't let my 
participation stop you. Truly. 

sms 

2017-05-24 

00:40:49, Wed 

INBOX 

Make sure you're weighting all your considerations honestly and 
appropriately. You said tonight you want to stay and protect the 
FBI. Is that true, or is it really stay and protect Andy? What if it's 
Director Townsend? Staying for Andy is perfectly fine. Just be 
brutally honest with yourself. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
00:42:23, Wed 

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1 don't know what 1 want, Lisa. 1 don't want to be anything but the 
lead agent. And 1 think even that is going to be a far cry from the 
inner sanctum of what Bob decides. 1 don't think agents will play a 
significant role. 1 (or whoever) might work into that circle of trust, 
but he's not going to view the lead agent the same as aaron 

sms 

2017-05-24 
00:43:26, Wed 

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No, but Aaron might, which would be as good as Bob doing it. 

sms 

2017-05-24 

00:52:12, Wed 

INBOX 

1 guess. Still. 1 would likely retire out of that job. No way its done 
in 

sms 

2017-05-24 

01:03:01, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Could 1 have oca get Brennan's testimony and send it to you? 

Then you provide to SC? 

sms 

2017-05-24 

01:05:38, Wed 

INBOX 

Just talked to Andy. 1 have to go in now and meet the AG with him 
and Bill. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
01:08:41, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Now? Like, tonight? 

sms 

2017-05-24 

01:09:43, Wed 

INBOX 

Yes. Talk? 

sms 

2017-05-24 
02:55:06, Wed 

INBOX 

Well that was fun. AG had leave "because he wasn't on the 

list." \U0001f62e That'll help my relationship with him... 

sms 

2017-05-24 

02:55:25, Wed 

INBOX 

It's what we speculated 

sms 

2017-05-24 
03:09:32, Wed 

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Hell, that's not your fault. I'm headed to bed. Good luck with 
everything tomorrow. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
03:10:59, Wed 

INBOX 

True, it's not. Surreal, chapter #832.\n\nSleep well, Lisa.:) 

sms 

2017-05-24 

09:30:56, Wed 

INBOX 

Hi there.\n\nOne more observation from last night - a 

snake. 

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Absolutely, yes. I'm curious to know why you say that. I'm at the 
airport. Lines are unlike any I've ever seen. Not sure why. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
16:27:37, Wed 


Hi\n\nHad a somewhat detailed convo about structure with Bob 
andaaronand (who is on steroids). They're 

envisioning You are above 



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that handling all leg affairs, assume reporting direct into Bob and 
leadership. 

sms 

2017-05-24 

16:29:05, Wed 

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Hmm. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
16:29:23, Wed 

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Will call you once 1 am at the gate. 

sms 

2017-05-24 
17:07:17, Wed 

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Hey did you get the Brennan transcript to Aaron? 

sms 

2017-05-24 

17:09:05, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Never mind, 1 just sent it to him. 

sms 

2017-05-24 

18:06:16, Wed 

INBOX 

No 1 hadn't. Thanks. 

sms 

2017-05-29 

23:20:26, Mon 

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NYTimes: A Constitutional Puzzle: Can the President Be 
lndicted?\nA Constitutional Puzzle: Can the President Be 

Indicted? https://nyti.ms/2scC27a 

sms 

2017-05-31 
00:38:22, Wed 

OUTBOX 

You going to give az a heads up tonight? 

sms 

2017-05-31 

00:43:50, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh, he was there. Standby on imsg 

sms 

2017-05-31 
03:10:00, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Asked me at the end whether 1 would be willing to serve in a 
similar role as 1 have for Andy. It frankly makes more sense than 
conf. affairs. Let's talk though. Also, please clear. 

sms 

2017-06-01 
00:53:04, Thu 

OUTBOX 

Btw andy called me earlier but 1 was at and 

couldn't talk. Our plan is to talk tomorrow. Good sign that he is 
reaching out 1 think. 

sms 

2017-06-01 
01:06:05, Thu 

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Gosh 1 hope so. 1 was having some regret that 1 didn't tell him 
what 1 was currently thinking 

sms 

2017-06-01 
01:09:41, Thu 

OUTBOX 

I'm sure he's calling to follow up from my text yesterday in light of 
Bob's call today. \n\nTo be clear, if he asks about you I'm going to 
say you're always a benefit to the team, but that the team will be 
okay withoutyou. 

sms 

2017-06-01 
01:15:14, Thu 

INBOX 

Is that the right answer re me? It may be true, but I'm reassessing 
what the hell 1 want right now. 1 don't have a great feeling about 
the big bureau right now and my role (and others perception of 
that) in it, and the SC seems like a tangible, worthwhile effort to 
do before 1 retire. 

sms 

2017-06-01 
01:16:50, Thu 

INBOX 

What do you think 1 should do? 

sms 

2017-06-01 

01:19:30, Thu 

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1 think you should stay the course. But 1 will talk to Andy honestly 
about and future and all that. 

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Is Andy truly accepting of the fact of the potential limitations that 
he may not be DD as long as he thought, and regardless, that we'll 
have a new D, as all this unfolds?\n\nBtw, Bill said he heard some 
guy in INSD was ranked #2 for the job. Someone we interviewed 
for a SC job in CD and turned down. Truly I don't know wtf is going 
on. Do I have cognitive dissonance? 

Look, here's the bottom line as best as I can sum up (and I hope 
you already know all this)\n\n-1 don't think Andy's acting in bad 
faith. I do think what he hypothetically proposes isn't something 
in his thought process or skillset or his available time and ability. 

In other words, when JG or Randy or even Bob said they had a 
plan, they had a PLAN. I don't think Andy does. And as A/D that's 
something too small for him to worry about. To put a fine point on 
it Wtf. Such a pin to the balloon of faith and confidence in 
the system, \n\n-1 knew my standing with Comey and Andy. One 
is gone, the other uncertain at best, \n\n-1 don't trust/believe in 
my standing with Daveand Carl and the rest of the EADs.\n\n-the 
SC is straightforward and rewarding, meaningful, honorable and a 
known quantity. It would cement my image as the "special project 
guy" or "glorified case agent" (nevermind they'll never see 
that way for doing the same job less well). I guess I’m 
feeling like I don't care about that right now. But it's not like i 
have a long time left. 

I understand all this. So what do you want me to say to him? Can I 
lay out this thinking, attributes to me?_: 


I don't know. \n\nMaybe i should sleep on it.\n\nMaybe, Pete's 
uncertain, between Comey the he's reassessing if he should 
just go?\n\nl don't know, Lis. 


We can talk in the morning. 


But I think that's a perfectly reasonable way to approach it. 

Thank you \U0001f636 

Sorry I don't have a ready answer here. I feel strongly - if 
ambiguously - at the same time I want to represent myself at the 
same time I don't want to be "that guy."\n\nNone of us are owed 
anything. Except when I think of the last 18 months. \n\nAnd then 
I think several of us ARE owed something. 


Hi. \n\nThe only additional thought I had is it's not tenable to 
have both me and :here. If he's in charge and I'm around, it 
undermines him (because Mueller and Aaron will be looking to 
me), it puts me in a horrible position, and it's a waste of Bureau 
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Yeah, 1 definitely plan to do that. 

I'm growing more doubtful about my role staying on. For the 
same reason you're not absolutely essential once 30 or 45 days is 
up, I'm not absolutely essential. You don't need someone to see 
around corners and check for pitfalls when you have the most all- 
star of all-star teams. I mean sure, might a catch a ball or two? 
Maybe. But not like the value I add at HQ when it's mostly not aII- 

slars._■ 

Thanks. Really curious to hear what he's thinking. 

I hear you. But a couple of things. First, I really truly believe you're 
not giving yourself enough credit for how good you are. Depends 
on what you want. At the Bu, you'll be a superstar amongst 
mostly not all-stars. There, you're a superstar amongst 
superstars.\n\nSecond, be really honest, what is your future at 
the Bureau? As long as Andy is A/D, you're in a weird place with JR 
and I don't know what his future is when a D is confirmed. 
Nor do I know Bakers future. 

And in terms of launching into the private sector, it's FAR 


On the flip side, I probably wouldn't want to be 
not with 


|Thi s is all true. But do I want this enough if my job is 





I honestlyjust don't see much of a role working for Bob/Aaron. 
They don't really need me. I'm happy to shag issues, but I don't 
really see that happening. Aaron doesn't give up much. 


That's definitely true re Aaron. I don't know if you'll be part of the 
true inner core, especially when they're fully staffed. Nor whoever 

the lead fbi person is. _ 

So then what am I doing there? Just padding my resume? 


Doing something meaningful, historic 


And yes, making contacts and superbly positioning yourself for 
whatever comes next 


Meh. Not if I'm the least impressive among the most impressive 
brains in America. 


Sorry was reading Carrie Johnson tweet and thread about Andrew 
being added to the team 


Send it please? He must have told her - they're close. 


Lisa. I don't think that's true. You won't be least impressive. You 
(and/or i, if I go) will solidly hold our own. Thats more than 
enough for you when it's all done. And that group will forever take 
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2017-06-01 
10:34:28, Thu 

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Yeah, maybe. 

sms 

2017-06-01 
22:48:19, Thu 

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and 1 thought Jim (maybe you too but i couldnt read that) 
was cranky. Was that from your convo before? 

sms 

2017-06-01 
22:50:55, Thu 

INBOX 

Argued with him along the lines of what 1 assume you did. 1 get his 
unanticipated consequences arguments, but 1 think it strains 
logic.\n\nAnyway. Sorry that review made you late. 

sms 

2017-06-01 

22:51:54, Thu 

OUTBOX 

1 didn't think Jim was cranky. Probablyjust tired because he was 
just on an hours long panel on 702. 1 thought YOU were cranky. 

sms 

2017-06-01 
22:53:31, Thu 

INBOX 

Oh. \n\nAmd really? Im sorry. Just felt really strongly on that one 
early point. Was 1 a jerky? If so, 1 apologize. :( 

sms 

2017-06-01 
22:54:44, Thu 

OUTBOX 

No, you just get that weird defensive way that isn't really 
appropriate fora colleague but whatever. 

sms 

2017-06-01 

23:11:24, Thu 

INBOX 

Sorry, 1 didn't notice. Was just worked up about it. 1 did note your 
"can 1 finish" which 1 now assume might have been driven by that 
perception. Anyway, sorry. I'll watch out for it.\n\r 

sms 

2017-06-01 

23:49:32, Thu 

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delayed reaction to made me laugh. \n\nFwiw, 1 got no 

further on the structure argument than i think you did. Even made 
the shifting organizational risk argument. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:09:00, Fri 

INBOX 

1 just sang your praises to Aaron. \U0001f60a Too long to explain 
here. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:11:44, Fri 

INBOX 

Ha. Aaron just called (but had to answer another call), said he had 
talked to you on one of the issues...not sure what but will call 
back. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:16:22, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Re the mtg tomorrow. Not clear now which subj (which is his 
Question 1 am guessing) but either way wants to attend 

which is an issue. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:16:47, Fri 

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le. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:17:40, Fri 

INBOX 

Hmm. 1 hearc What did you hear? 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:17:51, Fri 

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And from who? Mine came from Paul 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:18:13, Fri 

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Wait 1 forget the codename. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:18:28, Fri 

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Oh yes. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:18:40, Fri 

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He thought maybe someone else 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:20:46, Fri 

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Who's saying wants to attend? 

sms 

2017-06-02 

00:21:28, Fri 

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Tash said called her said nvited them. 

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Yeah just talked to aaron, he relayed same. is Peking this 

ALL up. I think Paul A gets it and Andy's intent (or at least he made 
statements to Carl about it in front of me), but word most 
certainly is not getting down the chain. \n\nYou've now GOTTA 
come to this sh*t show of a brief tomorrow. 

sms 

That is not, however, the topic insane your praises about. 

\U0001f60a sms 

So what'd you say? I need to have a convo next week about my 
role. If Aaron let me be an extension of him, I think I could really 
helohim. sms 


In other not fun news, one of the admin ladies 
Isaid Aaron asked each of us to submit a resume for their records. 


2017-06-02 

01:20:41, Fri 

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Hahaha. That makes me laugh for some reason. I'll help. 
\U0001f60a 

2017-06-02 

01:20:52, Fri 

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Universe talking to you, Page. 

2017-06-02 

01:24:09, Fri 

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Btw, 1 meant to point out to you today, you used the expression 
"horse sense" in reference to "any agent's horse sense will tell 
them x..." See? Horse sense. It's an expression for a reason...:) 

2017-06-02 

01:25:02, Fri 

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Ha. You're absolutely right. 1 had no notion of doing it when 1 did 

2017-06-02 

01:49:02, Fri 

INBOX 

Aaron said he was going to talk to Carl tomorrow. 1 told him that, 
some call he had with these are the 10-14 

days of hurt feelings and tears. At the point of moving past nice, 
iust saving how it is. 

2017-06-02 

10:54:20, Fri 

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Think we are having the 9:15 this am? 

2017-06-02 

10:54:46, Fri 

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We're not. Was going to ask if you want to walk over. 

2017-06-02 

10:56:23, Fri 

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Have to do the class review doc first. 

2017-06-02 

13:37:36, Fri 

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And 1 just picked up on what you said when you answered the 
phone. What were/are you talking about? 

2017-06-02 

13:38:15, Fri 

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SC job vs staying 

2017-06-02 

13:39:21, Fri 

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What does he think - yes for you, no for me? 

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13:44:32, Fri 

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Torn like 1 am. Agrees that andy and you need to talk. 



I am too, Lis. Kind of really depends on that conversation you have 
with Aaron.\n\r running late with Bill. I'll call you when I'm 
done. Fiaven't heard back from Aaron, maybe we just walk over 

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No - he switched meeting times with me because he has to run to 
State. Amd now he's late. 

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2017-06-02 

16:43:26, Fri 

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You free? 

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2017-06-02 

16:51:31, Fri 

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Talking to We need to talk 

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2017-06-02 

16:58:10, Fri 

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Sorry, just found my phone. Not much to do right now re 
but okay. 

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2017-06-02 

17:53:17, Fri 

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Two redactions 1 need to doscuss, let me know when you're back 

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2017-06-02 

19:34:27, Fri 

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Please call me before you leave SC 

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2017-06-02 

19:39:25, Fri 

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Am at desk here 

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2017-06-02 

21:12:14, Fri 

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Thanks for bringing those two things back. :) 

sms 

2017-06-02 

21:42:44, Fri 

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You still here? 1 have hill contact dates for you 

sms 

2017-06-02 

22:15:20, Fri 

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1 talked with Aaron, call me if you can 

sms 

2017-06-02 

22:23:50, Fri 

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Will call you on the way home. Got a drink with baker. Needed his 
good counsel. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

22:24:09, Fri 

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Talked to him about you too, so he's going to think about it and 
will reach out. 

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2017-06-02 

22:25:25, Fri 

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Man 1 can NEVER get him to go out. I've got thal jealousy 

you mentioned.;) 

sms 

2017-06-02 

23:23:46, Fri 

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Hope things are okay. Please do what you think is best re job. 

Don't sweat me. I'll just have to talk to about it if the decision 

presents itself. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

23:42:36, Fri 

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What do you want. Don't think. What's your immediate gut? 

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2017-06-02 

23:47:10, Fri 

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1 can probably talk in 10 min or so 

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2017-06-02 

23:50:32, Fri 

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1 really don’t know. Jim got me squarely back into support sc, but 
that changes minute by minute. 

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2017-06-02 


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Got it. \n\nl think where 1 am is exactly what YOU thought. 
\U0001f636\n\nl can only take this up to a point. After that, 
Mueller and the bright attorneys will drive it, not me. 

sms 

2017-06-02 

23:53:53, Fri 

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W/r/tyou, 1 think it's a bit different. 1 think you will be a trusted 
part of the team, but maybe never in the core leadership. BUT, 
because you're an attorney, this is an entirely different 
developmental opportunity. This helps you immeasurably in your 
future legal career. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

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Yes, I'm sure that is true. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

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How will your ego be if you end up working as a more "junior" 
attorney in this? (Not saying you will, just think that's the unlikely 
worst case for vou). 

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1 talked about that with Jim. He has a nice way of framing that I'm 
not there to compeat with so don't try to write some 

magnificent appellate brief. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:17:19, Sat 

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And let's face it, 1 WILL be a junior attorney. We've got the 
freaking titans of law joining this thing. 

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2017-06-03 

00:19:50, Sat 

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Exactly. 1 see that. 1 wanted to see if you saw the same. And if 
you're comfortable maybe coming off the bench on the all star 
team rather than being one of the star starters on team FBI. 

sms 

2017-06-03 
00:22:07, Sat 

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Ha. Jim had a similar analogy. You might not be on the line, but 
there are a lot of people who are necessary to keep the team on 
the field. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:22:18, Sat 

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You haven't asked, but 1 think you should go. It is an experience 
unlike any other you're going to get. Life changing. \n\nThats the 
ONLY thing seriously keeping me considering it. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:22:54, Sat 

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1 know you are right. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:23:45, Sat 

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It's just hard to be untethered to the Bureau and Andy right now. 
It's been bad enough without Comey, this just feels like another 
loss. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:24:06, Sat 

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Well i knew he was smart. \U0001f609\n\nTo my question: how 
do you feel when they call the meeting, not just Mueller aaron 
and Quarles, but a couple of attorneys, but not you? 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:24:44, Sat 

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Oh this project? You'll feel am integral part of a family team 
before the 4th of July. You'll be working too hard not to. 

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2017-06-03 

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attornev-driven team. 

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2017-06-03 

00:27:01, Sat 

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1 want to talk to Baker. I'm curious how he addresses the not 
being part of the true leadership team at the end of the day, how 1 
have a greater potential to give in the FBI. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:34:25, Sat 

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1 won't like it one bit. Jim says 1 need to be patient, that 1 will earn 
their trust and make it into the room eventually. 

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2017-06-03 

00:40:11, Sat 

INBOX 

1 wouldn't either. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

00:41:08, Sat 

INBOX 

And 1 completely get your feeling of untethered, of yet another 
loss. 

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2017-06-03 

00:41:28, Sat 

INBOX 

But Andy's going right around the corner. In a blink of an eye. 

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2017-06-03 

00:47:57, Sat 

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And what does SC do to your 

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Watcha doing?\n\nl've lost all motivation. Didn't edit - let alone 


01:54:35, Sat 


send - email to Jim. 



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2017-06-03 

01:54:59, Sat | displays on my work iPhone and I never cleared.! 


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2017-06-03 

01:55:46, Sat 

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Why not send It? Jim cares about you. Jim only pays the attention 
that he does to me because I'm pushy and 1 show up. 

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2017-06-03 

02:16:02, Sat 

INBOX 

Well 1 don't want to do it now, it's late. Let me make the edit and 
re-send to you. \n\nl'm sorry about the imsg. Thats good to know 
about the lock screen. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

03:31:31, Sat 

INBOX 

1 get more uncertain as time goes on.\n\nYou get shy more 
clarity? 

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2017-06-03 

03:31:56, Sat 

INBOX 

Any not shy 

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2017-06-03 

11:13:04, Sat 

INBOX 

This is turning out to be a really hard decision. Are you settling on 
one place or another? 

sms 

2017-06-03 

11:31:36, Sat 

INBOX 

Because I'm really torn. 1 thought sleep would help, but nope. 1 
guess I'm still leaning don't go. \n\nWhere are you with you? 

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2017-06-03 

11:42:34, Sat 

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I'm just going to stay for now, do what they want me to do. 

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2017-06-03 

11:47:19, Sat 

INBOX 

Good! 

sms 

2017-06-03 

11:48:00, Sat 

INBOX 

You feeling at peace with that? 

sms 

2017-06-03 

11:51:36, Sat 

OUTBOX 

No, but I'm going to try to get there. 

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2017-06-03 

11:53:10, Sat 

INBOX 

1 get it. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

11:53:37, Sat 

INBOX 

And you need to tell me one last time it's not presumptuous to 
email JB... 

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2017-06-03 

11:58:44, Sat 

OUTBOX 

It is not. You can even tell him 1 told you to email jim. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

12:00:40, Sat 

INBOX 

Well, 1 sent it. And promptly realized 1 forgot to change "this 
evening" to "yesterday." \U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-03 

16:16:35, Sat 

INBOX 

And no response from Jim and 1 feel foolish...maybe it's the 
universe, along with you, telling me to stay the course... 

sms 

2017-06-03 

16:32:21, Sat 

OUTBOX 

He almost never checks on the weekend. Wait until the evening. 
And stop worrying. He cares about you. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

16:35:12, Sat 

INBOX 

Ok \U0001f636 

sms 

2017-06-03 

16:35:19, Sat 

INBOX 

Thank you 

sms 

2017-06-03 

20:20:12, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Well offically been invited to the 5:00 now... 

\U0001f615 

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2017-06-03 

20:21:44, Sat 

INBOX 

5 is today? That's more than I've heard...any FBI there? 

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2017-06-03 

20:21:59, Sat 

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Agents, 1 mean 

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Or you mean the daily 5s?\n\nlf it makes you feel any better, I've 
had no calls and no emails since Aaron yesterday at 530. 


The daily 5:00s. 


Oh. Have those started? 

I haven't heard anything about them. I was just going to show up. 

asked me where I substantively want to land on the team. I 
just don't know the answer. Maybe under Andrew on 

At least I know him. _ 

How did you find out? From him?\n\nThough I confess this is 

steering me fi rmly on to th e sta y th e cours e path. _ 

I'm guessing you haven't been invited because they don't want it 

to be if you leave. Yea, the y ha pp en every day. _ 

I'm at SC. Had a mtg with az, and at 1:30. 

Is "chief of staff" or "assistant to Aaron" tenable? \n\nAaron told 
me they were going to have them. Just hadn't heard they had 
started. 


Any agents around?\n\nl'm telling you, this may cement it for me. 

He asked to start coming to them at the end of our 

meeting._ 

Any indication to you about whether or not he wanted you there? 

In the ofc? No. But that doesn't mean. They're not working at hq. 

I'd do or If you can't do some 

leadership elemen t thing _ 

He certainly didn't tell me to start showing up, so I didn't ask. 


I still think it's ultimately OK for you even if you're on the bench. 

But you ego's gonna need some TLC. _ 

Yeah, tell me about it. \U0001f614 


Think of it this way - coming down off of DD staff to this is a HELL 
of a lot better than coming down to OGC somewhere.... 

But no doubt about it, it sucks. I can feel MY urge to want in, right 
now, even though I'm in some non-committed tdy limbo. 

How long are you staying? Will people be around if I stop by 
before the Valor game? (That'll impress the hell.out of them!) 

I'm at hq now, but JQ and AW are there. 

I wouldn't be there for another hour, plus I doubt my card works. 








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20:55:58, Sat 

INBOX 

Do you want to be Andrew? Why not with where 

there are at and you might get assigned 

one?\n\nBut 1 don't know. Thats a tough call. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

21:00:35, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I'm scared of Andrew is at least a known quantity? 1 

don't know... 

sms 

2017-06-03 

21:18:22, Sat 

INBOX 

Yeah 1 know. though. Plus you 

know Cl better than all of theattys.... 

sms 

2017-06-03 

21:21:11, Sat 

INBOX 

Driving if you can talk. 

sms 

2017-06-03 

21:21:40, Sat 

INBOX 

Truly that might be your niche - work the 

sms 

2017-06-03 

21:21:46, Sat 

INBOX 

Angle 

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2017-06-03 

23:05:51, Sat 

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Crap! 1 forgot my eras. \U0001f62l\U0001f62l\U0001f621 

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2017-06-03 


Dude. It's all unclassified 


23:06:18, Sat 

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2017-06-03 

23:06:37, Sat 

INBOX 

Type on home computer and email to yourself. 

sms 

2017-06-03 


Okay. But it would help to have what 1 wrote. But fair enough. 


23:06:58, Sat 

OUTBOX 


sms 

2017-06-03 

23:07:04, Sat 

INBOX 

Subj in custody, btw. First ML arrest of the Trump era 

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2017-06-03 


Yeah. 


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IINDUA | 

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23:12:34, Sat 

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2017-06-04 

01:13:36, Sun 

INBOX 

I'm trying to write an email back to but don't know what to 

say after, thanks for the heads up. How would you finish that 
email? 

sms 

2017-06-04 


Maybe just hope this gets resolved soon? 1 have no idea. 


01:15:06, Sun 

OUTBOX 


sms 

2017-06-04 

01:17:15, Sun 

OUTBOX 

I'm going to mention 

And I'm going to tell him nas to grow a pair and start 

correcting people when they say Andy. 

sms 

2017-06-04 

01:20:42, Sun 

INBOX 

Yep 

sms 

2017-06-04 

01:21:23, Sun 

INBOX 

He just needs to send a message. Amd needs to stand up 

and get people in line. Thats his job, not JR's. 

sms 

2017-06-04 


Please, when you get a chance, plug with Aaron all the behind the 


01:25:27, Sun 

OUTBOX 

scenes work 1 did with Andy, Jim, etc. to get this result. Andy was 
NOT going to do it just based on Mueller's convo with him - he 
just didn't understand what the problem was. AND 1 did a lot of 
work to help them understand that was also not the right 

guv. 

sms 

2017-06-04 

01:25:42, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Thank you. \U0001f636 

sms 

2017-06-04 


Of course 1 will. \U0001f636 


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I worry they think I'm too loyal to Andy or Comey, won't truly 
trust me because of that. Maybe this will help. 


I dunno. 

I wouldn't worry about that 
Just be you 

That will be enough \U0001f60a\U0001f636 
It hasn't been yet. 


This is true. \n\nAnd I don't think it's that they don't trust you 
because of Andy or Comey. I think they just don't trust, generally. 

You will work your way in. Patience. _ 

And sigh. Ok. \n\nDon't worry too much about Mueller and 

Aaron. You're gong to be ok. :) _ 

Just talked to Jim for 40 minutes. He's a good man. He strongly 

thinks I shou ld go. _ 

He is an incredibly good man. 


So did you ever get an invite to tomorrow strategy mtg? And 
Aaron ever call you back?_ 


Yeah me too, re tired. \n\nAaron did call. Think it's still a little 
early for the strategy meeting, so will just do the ops update 

followed by the oca/OPA wrap _ 

I talked through what he'd envision were I to stay. I asked what 
my role would be, especially in terms of the leadership group. He 
thought i would be, but wanted to confirm with RM. 

Looks like all hands svtcon Tues and strategy meeting eitherTues 
or Wed. 

He ask you to stay for oca/ops wrap? 




Super.\n\nl'm glad for you at least. 


INBOX 


And morning meetings, but not tomorrow so he can run past RM. 

He said those have been largely admin in nature._ 

So you joining the team? I need to talk to if so. 


I don't know. 

I told him I wanted to be part of the leadership team if I stayed, 
because otherwise i didn't know if it would be worth it for 
me.\n\nl think we do 30 and try things on for size, which I guess 
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Let's see what RM says first. If it's not going to work out, then no 
npprl to pn thprp 

t'll be fine. 

I 


My sense is ft will be. All of this is based on earned trust from 
competence, anyway. I'd have the advantage of being the senior 
bureau person, which also helps.\n\nl want to talk to you again, 
obviously. I was surprised how strong and unanimous both JB and 
Bill were. And if I do after all that, need to talk to Andy. 


I don't want to go to sleep, because if I do, then next thing I'll 

wake up and it will be time for work :( _ 

At least at a job in which you're wanted. 


Hi there. They do want you, Lisa. Just gotta figure your spot. 

Right 

You going to talk to Aaron about it? Or just dive in and see what 

o rganical ly develops? _ 

That's starting to seem a little pushy and desperate. 

Yeah I agree. So the latter, then. I'm tellingyou, you'll prove your 
worth a thousand times, quickly. \n\nGod there are like a million 
extra bird and nature sounds. Not sure what's up this morning.. 






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1 will. 

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2017-06-05 

13:29:11, Mon 

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I'm frustrated. 1 know you must be too. 

sms 

2017-06-05 

13:47:55, Mon 

INBOX 

Hey are you still on phone ? np if so, just want to know whether to 
hang or not. Have a couple of things for you then 1 need to hit 
bubble and SC. 

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2017-06-05 

13:51:57, Mon 

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1 am with You coming to 10 am? 

sms 

2017-06-05 

13:53:21, Mon 

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Shit 

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2017-06-05 

13:53:24, Mon 

INBOX 

Yes. Where? 

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2017-06-05 

13:53:55, Mon 

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You can skip it. Ogc conf. Room. I'm not even sure oca is coming. 

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2017-06-05 

13:55:36, Mon 

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Got some things 1 need to run past you, I’ll com 

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2017-06-05 

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Come 

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2017-06-05 

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Checking out. 

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2017-06-05 

16:46:50, Mon 

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Rgr 

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2017-06-05 

18:44:10, Mon 

INBOX 

So this great. Walked over here around 2, they're all in a meeting 
(1 think) and I've been kind of sitting/waiting. \U0001f612 

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2017-06-05 

19:00:42, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Let me talk to SC about 1 just spoke to Rybicki about 

them and where things stand. 

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2017-06-05 

19:01:41, Mon 


1 just talked to Aaron. He said lift 

other words, 



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2017-06-05 

19:02:13, Mon 

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Call me? 

sms 

2017-06-05 

19:05:06, Mon 

INBOX 

Hey so are you gong to come over in between? If so, I'll wait to 
talk to Aaron until you get here. 

sms 

2017-06-05 

19:05:31, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yes, going to leave momentarily. 

sms 

2017-06-05 

19:10:13, Mon 

INBOX 

Ok bring . Just talked to we can 

conference call her and mark it up, then get it to Bill for stamp. 

Put a cover EC and put them in the file. 

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2017-06-05 

21:23:19, Mon 

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And for now, I'm not in the 5:00s...\U0001f612...Aaron told him 
he recommended yes, but no answer yet. 

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2017-06-05 

22:45:27, Mon 

INBOX 

Hey you still at work? I'm finishing up with Aaron. He's trying to 
call Scott S now 

sms 

2017-06-05 

22:46:03, Mon 

INBOX 

And has an office, you better try and hop on one quick 

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2017-06-05 

22:46:32, Mon 

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1 am still here. I'll hit you up shortly. 

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2017-06-05 

22:47:04, Mon 

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Ok I'm in Aarons office, if 1 don't answer that's why 

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2017-06-05 

22:47:22, Mon 

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Should 1 come over? 

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2017-06-05 

22:47:53, Mon 

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Don't think so, 1 think I'm about to head out. 

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2017-06-05 

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In with baker. 

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Hey Aaron asked what your second issue was - we both 
remember op ed/pre-pub review. Can we conference call you? 

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2017-06-05 

22:53:35, Mon 

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I'm in with baker. 

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2017-06-05 

22:53:53, Mon 

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Was re Stephen Kelly sitting in closed with comey. 

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2017-06-05 
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Not a big deal. 

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2017-06-05 
22:54:09, Mon 

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But need to talk to.him about foia too 

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2017-06-05 

22:55:07, Mon 

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Yep. Do you want to conference call, come over, talk tomorrow? 
Why don't 1 propose meeting a little bit before the 10? 

sms 

2017-06-05 

22:55:17, Mon 

INBOX 

That wayjust all walk up... 

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2017-06-05 

22:56:39, Mon 

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Ok, so just proposed to aaron we meet at 945 in my 
office.\n\nSolved!\n\n:l I've sot you.... 

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2017-06-05 

23:11:18, Mon 

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Heading back call me whenever 

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2017-06-05 

23:17:29, Mon 

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1 can't talk right now. I'll call you back shortly. 

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2017-06-05 

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INBOX 

Hey I'm getting ready to leave. If you're finishing, I'll sit tight, 
otherwise call me on cell. 

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2017-06-05 

23:36:03, Mon 

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In with Andy, leaving now 

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2017-06-05 

23:36:40, Mon 

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K 1 'm still here. You leaving leaving or just going back to office? 

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2017-06-05 

23:47:05, Mon 

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Office. Headed there now. 

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2017-06-06 

01:01:40, Tue 

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Clear imsg... 

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2017-06-06 

01:36:59, Tue 

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Boo where'd you go? 

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2017-06-06 

01:47:16, Tue 

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Sorry, this was in my lit bag. Still at work. 

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2017-06-06 

01:48:11, Tue 

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Aaron and were here reading Aaron asked if you 

would be willing to take a copy to Bob tomorrow am when you 
get in. He gets in around 730/745. 

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2017-06-06 

01:48:20, Tue 

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Oh Jesus. Really? You get to.talk to aaron? 

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2017-06-06 

01:49:04, Tue 

INBOX 

Marked?\n\nWe get an answer, re ? 

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2017-06-06 

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Guessing yes since they were reading them 

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2017-06-06 

01:49:28, Tue 

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Yes marked. Yes to the SC team, no answer yet re 

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2017-06-06 

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Sorry i missed it, interested in their thoughts / reaction. \n\nl'l! be 
there at 730 with a copy for him. 

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2017-06-06 

01:52:44, Tue 

INBOX 

They say anything? 

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Not really. Just small timing questions along the way. 
You should come meet M with me and 


I can't be there that early. And why would I? I am just going to 

drop them off. _; 

Sit there while he reads. Thats what I'm planning to do. 

\n\nllntil.he says, thanks, you can go.... _: 

He is not going to have you sit there. At best vou'l I be in your cube 
waiting for him to finish since they are and he 



And ha, I had NO idea about all that DOJ classified space 

restrictions. \n\nl'm going to have to research that... _ 

Dummy... 


We German tourists aren't always that savvy 

And who told Andrew about me? You? 

A long time ago, so he probably doesn't remember. I'd guess 

A aron. _ 

Ok now I'm not happy about the early morning doc delivery. 

\U0001f62a\U0001f629 _ 

Aaron was under the assumption that you are in at 7:45 anyway, 

did you not tell him that?_ 

That's sometimes aspirational, as you know. \U0001f60b 


Ha. So you've got no one to blame but yourself. \U0001f60a 


Double \U0001f60b 

Hey do you have stuff to discuss at the 9:40 as well? Az seemed to 
believe it was your meeting._ 


Ha. Not really but I'll come up with stuff. I said you had some 
items (which is why I cautioned you last night to save some for 

today) _ 

I didn't discuss any last night - but he thinks this is a you and he 
meeting and I had to mention that I would be there too. 

I specifically asked for the meeting in the context of you having 
items to talk about that we didn't get to. I went through my list, 
and we turn to the things you had, and I said I didn't know many 
of them, and that we should all sit down and meet. 


That's frustrating. 






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2017-06-06 

11:15:32, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm happy to remind him. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:15:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

So you're going to have to level set the purpose when we sit 
down. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:15:45, Tue 

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Yeah, thanks. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:16:33, Tue 

INBOX 

1 will. One of the items is, legitimately, how to approach Andy 
about the people that Bob is going to want a sign to the team. 

That discussion has to occur before 1 go making any calls. Maybe 
we can strategize about that. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:18:54, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Why do you think Andy is going to care at all? I'm sure you can get 
whomever you want. Do you mean whether Andy or bowdich 
should tell the field offices first? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:19:19, Tue 

OUTBOX 

And 1 think bowdich can make the calls to angry sacs. It certainly 
doesn't need to be andy. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:20:54, Tue 

INBOX 

All of those issues. Bowdich hasn't been part of the conversations 
but absolutely. Bob tells Andy, Andy tells Dave make it happen. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:23:53, Tue 

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That's how 1 think think should go. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

11:27:56, Tue 

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OGCs gotta get done whatever work they need to do to satisfy 
everyone at HQ. 1 want to start calling people this week to tell 
them to plan on reporting on the 23rd 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:40:36, Tue 

INBOX 

Dropped off with Bob. Good. (Btw, was 

already here at 745)\n\nHe closed the door to read. 
\U0001f612\n\nWent and discussed and access and 

strategy with and Good\n\nAaron came in, then Bob 

pulled everyone but me into his morning meeting. 
\U0001f612\n\nBefore closing the door, he said he'd get with me 
in a bit; 1 asked him if that meant he wanted me to sit tight. He 

<unidvp<; I'm at mv n ih(= 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:57:57, Tue 

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How exceptionally irritating. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:58:25, Tue 

INBOX 

Yep. \n\nStill waiting. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:58:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Aaron and nave a call with me and at 9, so it has to 

end soon. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:59:12, Tue 

INBOX 

'Cause Murphys law, the minute 1 call.you, he'll free up 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:59:13, Tue 

OUTBOX 

No 1 got here at 8. Been in with Rybicki and 

sms 

2017-06-06 

12:59:26, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:00:27, Tue 

INBOX 

Any consensus opinion about ? 1 told 3nd they 

had to give a heads up about what you me and were doing. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:02:14, Tue 

OUTBOX 

What do you mean consensus opinion? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:02:31, Tue 

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I'm not following this text at all. 

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sms 

2017-06-06 

13:03:14, Tue 

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a jerk;) 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:04:44, Tue 

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Will explain when 1 see you. Too much for here 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:08:17, Tue 

OUTBOX 

I'll meet you at 930? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:08:29, Tue 

OUTBOX 

In hq? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:08:59, Tue 

INBOX 

Yep. If 1 'm done with Bob. They're still behind closed doors. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:09:20, Tue 

OUTBOX 

They are going to be on this call until 930 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:11:11, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh. Didn't realize that's what they're doing. So should 1 just head 
back? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:11:34, Tue 

INBOX 

1 kind of want to send th message I'm notable to just sit around 
for an hour 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:11:45, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 think so. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:11:59, Tue 

OUTBOX 

You've got a mtg with az at 940, over here. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:15:09, Tue 

INBOX 

Yep. F A cl< it. told his EA 1 had a 930 at hq and 1 would find him 
later. \n\n 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13-18-03 Tue 

INBOX 

Done. Come to your office or mine? 

sms 





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Not sure. 


13:19:04, Tue 

OUTBOX 


sms 

2017-06-06 

13:22:05, Tue 

INBOX 

Ok I'll just go to my office and start. 1 thought mtg with Aaron was 
945 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:22:17, Tue 

INBOX 

Your meeting on track to end by 930? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:22:34, Tue 

OUTBOX 

We are, for now. But who the f knows. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:22:52, Tue 

INBOX 

You in your office with Stephen? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:23:08, Tue 

OUTBOX 

In Stephen's ofc. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

13:23:51, Tue 

INBOX 

Ok. Food just got done. I'll just go to my office. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

16:44:21, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Hey call when you are off 

sms 

2017-06-06 

17:03:03, Tue 

INBOX 

Sc mentioned it when Bill was there, but not the name. 

That only went to Carl. \U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-06 

22:04:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

For you and aaron. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

22:05:27, Tue 

INBOX 

Yep he's on the phone right now, want me to call when he's off? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

22:05:43, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Can you step out and call m 

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Or I can just ask ft if you want to send 


Sigh. Still waiting to talk to Aaron.... 

Yeah, I'm about to leave. I'll touch base with Andy tomorrow. 

Whatevs. _ 

Funny I'm right there with you.\n\nYou discuss working with 

Andrew with him? _^_ 

Thanks, btw, for shagging that stuff for me with ) 

Yeah, though baker doesn't think that's the best place to land. 

Why? A specific case vs generalist idea? Or Andrew/that case? 

Aaron just told Dreeban we've set up a 

Sure whatever. 

More just that case. Just going to be a bunch of etc. 


That's true re case. I think 



is the place for you. 


I think ' is 

smack square in your wheelho use. 

You're going to follow up with re sf86 restrictions on use, 
yes?_ __ 


Yes. She just emailed that was not aware of any restriction 
other than before affirmative use we seek OPM approval since 

they own the info. _ 

And give JB credit, he's going through personnel issues and reach 
back into CD and FBI and the rest of it.\n\n(And i suspect I owe 
you some than ks fo r that \U0001f60a) 

And JB I think gave you a plug at the end 

Not following 

A plug for what? And to whom? 

A plug by JB about you to Aaron 

Oh. I didn't realize that personnel convo was with aaron, not just 
you. What's he say? 


Oh it was just JB and Aaron. I only heard part of Aaron's side 


Just Td you up for 702 education for the team (is it a 
problem/litigation issue, do we need to avoid searching against it, 
etc) 





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2017-06-06 

23:43:42, Tue 

OUTBOX 

might also be smart on the issue. 

sms 

2017-06-06 

23:48:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

How do you know baker was talking about me? 

sms 

2017-06-06 

23:52:53, Tue 

INBOX 

Too long to explain here. Convo had turned to if things. 

Aaron mentioned thoughts and structure of something 1 had 
described. A couple of things were said,, and the convo was 
wrapping up, then Aaron said she IS good or something to that 
effect. J ust my gut. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
00:16:46, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Oh geez, dreeben is going to explain than 

any human on the planet. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
00:18:21, Wed 

INBOX 

A word missing "better"? 

sms 

2017-06-07 
00:26:36, Wed 

INBOX 

Finally leaving. 1 hope you're not still at work.... 

sms 

2017-06-07 

00:27:16, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Nope. 1 left at 7. Of course 1 ran into when he was 

leaving. At 5:30. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
02:31:24, Wed 





INBOX 

\U0001f60a\U0001f60a\nC) 1 have no idea who the two agents 
are asked for. They're not associated with the team, and 1 

may need to say "no." I'll do research and talk with her but 1 worry 
they're NY, in the same way Andrew worried about NY agents. 

And he had the sense to talk to me about what he wanted, and 
balance his request against those already on the team.\nD) 
curious the comment Andrew made as 1 stepped out, prompting 
your 20 year agent comment. My sense was he wasn't necessarily 

mms 

2017-06-07 


!} So just sit down and 


09:59:50, Wed 

OUTBOX 

talk to her honestly about it. It's okay to say no, especially since 
that subject NEEDS a strong Cl look as well.\nD) Jesus, relax about 
the comment. Andrew had been making fun of himself, you 
stepped out to make a call, Andrew said oh no, I've scared him. 1 
said you're a 20 year agent, you're fine. It was all a joke. That's it. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:43:06, Wed 

OUTBOX 

C) Been thinking. Let me prep the battlefield with first, like 

1 did with Andrew. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:43:42, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Who you are, why she can trust you, considerations to think 
about. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:44:26, Wed 

OUTBOX 

And jesus, did you see that the networks are carrying Comey's 
testimony? Interrupting regular tv to broadcast... 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:45:07, Wed 

INBOX 

C) it's fine. 1 can do it - you and 1 have essentially the same 
relationship with her whereas you know Andrew much much 
better. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:45:57, Wed 

INBOX 

1 was going to find her early and talk, truly, I'm not worried nor do 

1 think it will be adversarial in the least. If you have personal 
reasons for you and team to do it, that's a different story. 

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10:46:52, Wed 

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It's truly going to be "the most watched Washington event since 
Watergate."\n\nWhere are we watching (yes damn right I'm 
watching with you) 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:47:54, Wed 

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1 would just prefer to, gives me a reason to pop in and say hi too. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:48:34, Wed 

OUTBOX 

1 think I'm watching with just quietly ir affice. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:49:28, Wed 

INBOX 

My reluctance is 1 want her to see me as the lead -1 appreciate 
you doing it with Andrew since he's close to.you, but 1 with her 1 
guess I'd rather just directly have the conversation. Let's talk 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:49:51, Wed 

INBOX 

invited everyone to the D's conference room. Is not 

going to be there? 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:51:32, Wed 

OUTBOX 

N( didn't. That is for today - Andy's hearing. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:52:20, Wed 

INBOX 

Oh 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:52:22, Wed 

OUTBOX 

No one is going to mistake me for you as the lead, but that's fine. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:54:06, Wed 

INBOX 

1 just have had email back and forth with her about it, as well as 
with Aaron and the team on staffing, 1 don't want her to suddenly 
think I'm inserting a proxy before we actually just sit down and 
talk. Truly, 1 think I'd prefer to talk to her if that's ok. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:55:27, Wed 

INBOX 

And I've gotta say I'm a little bummed about Dir C testimony. Is 
what it is. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

10:56:24, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yup, it's fine. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
10:57:12, Wed 

OUTBOX 

They don't want to make it a big scene viewing, which 1 get, but 
would be understood. So and 1 had already discussed. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
11:31:51, Wed 


1 get, re t's going to be emotional for all of us.\n\nl'm 

disappointed because i see a solid, unbroken line from mve to 
announcement to :o election to momentous this 



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2017-06-07 
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50 work things to tell you. need to tell you back story 

sms 

2017-06-07 

11:57:37, Wed 

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I'm in the car if you want to talk. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
12:01:27, Wed 

INBOX 

Wait 1 

sms 

2017-06-07 

12:57:11, Wed 

INBOX 

Hey can you bring extra copies of the spreadsheet 1 printed for 
you? Thanks 

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16:50:41, Wed 

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Are yoy close or still waiting to link up with If you are, i 

don't want to be a jerk and I'll wait. If not, I'm just going to head 

over. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
16:56:40, Wed 

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We're not going over. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
16:57:07, Wed 

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Ok. You need me to do anything for you? 

sms 

2017-06-07 
16:57:21, Wed 

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(over there 1 mean)? 

sms 

2017-06-07 
16:58:09, Wed 

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Well actually wherever but you get my point. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
16:59:54, Wed 

INBOX 

Great. My cube has literally 9 chairs in it now. \U0001f612 

mms 

2017-06-07 
17:00:55, Wed 

INBOX 

Is cool with me? 1 know that wasn't the subject of stay 

behind (at least 1 certainly hope it wasnt), just was getting a really 
weird vibe from 

sms 

2017-06-07 
17:18:05, Wed 

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Oh good. really hard to read sometimes. This isn't me 

wanting everyone to like me (though obviously 1 do) -1 just like 
and respect a lot. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

17:19:47, Wed 

INBOX 

Also - not for talking about engaging and (at least trying 

to) doing interviews soon along the lines of what we discussed 
earlier. 1 think is going to take on until they find 

someone. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

17:20:42, Wed 

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Try to see if 1 am on that one, since 1 have no idea. \U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-07 
17:23:04, Wed 

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1 know, Lis, 1 know. It's super frustrating. \n\nCan you come over 
and just start hanging out? You need to just be here for the, hey, 
you, can you run this down for me/let me do that for yous. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
17:27:41, Wed 

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Sure, 1 just don't have anything that 1 can really do over there. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

17:31:14, Wed 

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Aaron would like you and to explore 

along the lines we discussed on that one answer 

sms 

2017-06-07 
17:31:39, Wed 

OUTBOX 

Yeah 1 really think we need to. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

17:31:48, Wed 

INBOX 

Aaron asked me to ask you and to take the lead on 

drafting something and then discuss it. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
17:32:04, Wed 

INBOX 

So see, yay, something for you to do. :) 

sms 

2017-06-07 

17:32:14, Wed 

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Yeah, amazing. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
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talking to Aaron now 

sms 

2017-06-07 

17:32:42, Wed 

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Yeah, I'm in here. What mtg is he going to? 

sms 

2017-06-07 
17:32:45, Wed 

INBOX 

Something about but I'll try and listen in to the follow on 

sms 

2017-06-07 

20:18:03, Wed 

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Where are physically now? 

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2017-06-07 
20:31:49, Wed 

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Which ones? to the best of my 

understanding. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
20:34:57, Wed 

INBOX 

Yes. Ok, that's what Paul just briefed. 1 wasn't sure if the move to 
office was inminent/going to happen.\n\nThey reaffirmed we 
ultimately need to get them ,n\nThanks 

sms 

2017-06-07 
20:42:06, Wed 

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There is no move to ofc. Just can't be 

without his approval. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

20:45:58, Wed 

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Oh. Perfectm 

sms 

2017-06-07 

21:01:39, Wed 

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You coming over here at all? 

sms 

2017-06-07 

21:01:56, Wed 

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Should 1? 

sms 

2017-06-07 
21:05:46, Wed 

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Unless you've got something going, i would. We're starting 
obstruction team brief but just come. Sit in on whatever comes 

next. 

sms 

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21:06:30, Wed 

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1 mean, I've got lots of work to do. But okay. 

sms 

2017-06-07 
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Who is in it? 

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2017-06-07 
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Don't then. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

21:09:21, Wed 

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I'm just saying, come over here and stick your head in. I've gotten 
more the past couple of days after hours talking with Aaron and 
then all day the past week and a half 

sms 

2017-06-07 
21:09:36, Wed 

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Was not suggesting it for any particular reason, just a dive in sort 
of thing 

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2017-06-07 
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If you have work to do, I'd say do it. 

sms 

2017-06-07 

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1 left. F it. There's no amount of time 1 can spend and finish 
everything. Whatevs 

sms 

2017-06-07 

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Hi. 1 know. I'm sorry. :( 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Dir C's gotta have some nervous anticipation 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Hey does his testimony actually start at 10 or 1030? 

sms 

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10 

sms 

2017-06-08 
10:50:24, Thu 

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You ok? The trained investigator in me notes the sum total of four 
words this morning. Still feeling unmoored? 

sms 

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10:58:02, Thu 

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Yup. Super busy but with unclear purpose. It's the best. 

sms 

2017-06-08 
11:18:15, Thu 

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I'm firmly in the camp. Pete's take, pulling from my Army 

days: embrace the suck.\n\nOrder will emerge, and specifically 
for you. You're too good, too enegetic, too competent. \n\nJust 

BE YOU. And trust. Yourself. The righteousness of all this, \n\nlt 
will be OK. 1 pinky promise. Which is the opposite of tough guy 
army sayings. I'm complex that way;) 

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Yay. Got a commitment from He was a great case 

agent on my squad. 

sms 

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And I'm sitting outside the closed door waiting to get 2 minutes 
before they all have their various 9:00s...\U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Nice. 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Baker just told me about what Rybicki told you. You're going to 
mention to Aaron, right? 

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2017-06-08 
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Yeah I'm feeling great about it.\n\nYes, it's one of the reasons I'm 
waiting, cabana-boy style. \U0001f612\U0001f612\U0001f612 

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2017-06-08 
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You get my vm? 

sms 

2017-06-08 

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And I'm still waiting \U0001f621 

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2017-06-08 

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1 assume there's nothing operational /I don't need to be on the 
call? 

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Because, again, who knows... 

sms 

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Oh, don't worry. I'm not even on speaker. \U0001f612 

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What?!? \U0001f61e\n\nGod 1 want to keep telling you to hang in 
there but it's hard.... 

sms 

2017-06-08 

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Nevertheless. \n\nHang in there. \n\nYour country needs you. 

sms 

2017-06-08 

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Nope. Sent me an email yesterday about the call be it deals with 
his but here i am. 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Oh boy. Nope, you boys are going to need to soon... 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Illll 

sms 

2017-06-08 
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Should 1 come in? 

sms 

2017-06-09 

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Pis clr imsg. \n\nThanks for staying for personnel discussion. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

00:35:03, Fri 

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You up for a convo about ? 

sms 

2017-06-09 

01:24:29, Fri 

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Just got done talking tc Gosh I've been blessed to have 

worked with great agents. \n\nThank you for reminding me all 
those times that 1 wouldn't trade what I've done for a different 
path. \U0001f636\n\nl don't always deserve the goodness that 1 
have. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

01:56:52, Fri 

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Great ust called me to say that Rachel Maddow just listed by 

name each of the people the Director listed as having discussed 
the matter with, but she that 1 was the only one they hadn't 
identified yet but that they were working on it. \U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-09 

01:58:59, Fri 

INBOX 

Oh crap 

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Won't take long. 

Welcome to the club. \U0001f612 


What's the immediate impact? Things i worried were, in 
order:\nl) crazies\n2) enemies Iists\n3) subpoenas\n4) frivolous 
lawsuits/foias\n\nFrankly, though, i wouldn't worry TOO much 

a bout it. _ _ 

And you know anc know. But they might be cool 

enough not to run your name. _ 

How are you feeling about it? 

And we do need to discuss your role in 

Not sure if I 'm overt hinking that. _ 

And \U0001f60a something for to.brag about and to be 

roud of in a couple of generations._ 


I don't think I know a lot of enemies/crazies. Well, there is one 
I'm sure they won't hesitate to out me. They outed 
Who's the one? 

Who's 5 


You should be able to figure that out. \U0001f612 


A) they did? I didn't know that\nB) ah. Got it. \U0001f614 
So how are you feeling about it? Hopefully not too worried? 


Not happy about it, but obviously nothing I can do about it. 
Alright, I'm going 






\n\nGotta talk at all hands 

at 10 then at Agency at 1. Neither have anything to do with SC. 
Doing too many things poorly. Life is great. 


You should stay for the dull all hands. Sends a better message. 


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10:12:21, Fri 

INBOX 

Yeah 1 guess. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

10:12:57, Fri 

INBOX 

Didn't see your name in any news feeds. Hopefully they let it go. 
Who knows. 

sms 

2017-06-09 10:21:4 INBOX 

Imsg? 

sms 

2017-06-09 

10:26:44, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Go ahead 

sms 

2017-06-09 

12:12:29, Fri 

INBOX 

Still ok to imsg, or call? 

sms 

2017-06-09 

12:30:40, Fri 

OUTBOX 

You can imsg. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

12:34:53, Fri 

INBOX 

Crap of course 1 didn't bring that phone. Nothing urgent. Just a 
convo with Bill, his feelings, and my general sense of this feeling 
of unease permeating a lot more broadly than 1 was thinking 
about. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

12:42:25, Fri 

INBOX 

And my kick in the nuts rush for 2 minutes with Aaron and to 

bring up things with Mueller before they walk in and shut the 
door. \U0001f612\U0001f612\U0001f612\U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-09 

15:38:37, Fri 

INBOX 

Hi. Got a sec. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

15:44:12, Fri 

OUTBOX 

I'm walking out of SC now. Stand by. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

16:39:17, Fri 

INBOX 

No today 

sms 

2017-06-09 

17:29:30, Fri 

INBOX 

Just got an Agency coin 

sms 

2017-06-09 

17:29:56, Fri 

INBOX 

With Brennan's signature;) 

sms 

2017-06-09 

18:11:59, Fri 

INBOX 

Hi. You go to R? 

sms 

2017-06-09 

20:40:13, Fri 

INBOX 

This is what I'm talking about! Divide and conquer. And c'mon 
wtf. 

sms 

2017-06-09 

20:52:11, Fri 

INBOX 

Btw, we still haven't talked....He's outside swapping cars 

sms 

2017-06-09 

22:06:13, Fri 

INBOX 

And just ran out like Cinderella about to hit midnight... 

sms 

2017-06-09 

23:43:44, Fri 

INBOX 

Just leaving. This won't end well. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

00:07:39, Sat 

OUTBOX 

What won't, your participation? And why so late, just when he 
finally made time? Was Bob still there? 1 seem to remember that 
Andy was going to some black tie affair honoring Mueller tonight.. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

00:13:38, Sat 

INBOX 

No, for the former D.\n\nJust talking through how to handle. 
\n\nMueller left but said he didn't go to the dinner 

sms 

2017-06-10 

00:14:21, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Oh god. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

03:34:05, Sat 

INBOX 

Hey 

sms 

2017-06-10 

15:49:47, Sat 

OUTBOX 

1 didn't understand you last comment about what he was angry 
about. Just hit me up there when you can. 

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2017-06-10 

15:53:19, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Finally, 1 don't like not including that one person. He is NOT 
recused. Bill should not be making that call for him. He can make 
that decision himself. He always takes a conservative approach 
and can be trusted to do the right thing. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

18:39:09, Sat 

OUTBOX 

I'll call you back later. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

18:39:28, Sat 

OUTBOX 

On a call, I'll call you back. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

19:09:01, Sat 

INBOX 

Still talking? \U0001f636\n\nl'm still waiting for Aaron.... 

sms 

2017-06-10 

19:12:55, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes, 1 called Trisha, just to chat. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

19:13:50, Sat 

INBOX 

God she cant get back soon enough... 1 hope she doesn't run off 
with the rest of the mass exodus.... 

sms 

2017-06-10 

19:19:14, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Okay, I'm off. 

sms 

2017-06-10 

19:32:57, Sat 

INBOX 

Talking to Aaron anc 

sms 

2017-06-10 

19:33:35, Sat 

INBOX 

Will call you then Bill 

sms 

2017-06-11 

02:48:23, Sun 

INBOX 

1 sent a dial in for tomorrow. We have to talk to him first. 

sms 

2017-06-11 

02:48:51, Sun 

INBOX 

Given the publicity, 1 don't think we can get ssci to change dates 

sms 

2017-06-11 

02:49:11, Sun 

INBOX 

Hi hi hi 

sms 

2017-06-11 

02:50:40, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Is his open or closed? 

sms 

2017-06-11 

02:51:01, Sun 

INBOX 

1 couldn't tell from reporting 

sms 

2017-06-11 

17:50:55, Sun 

INBOX 

Eras work? 

sms 

2017-06-11 

18:15:49, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Trying it now. 

sms 

2017-06-11 

18:16:29, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Honestly 1 think it is a waste of talents to bring him to 

the team... 

sms 

2017-06-11 

18:21:47, Sun 

OUTBOX 

First attempt was a failure. :( 

sms 

2017-06-11 

18:22:14, Sun 

OUTBOX 

On the very first screen, the bitlocker, what are you supposed to 
enter? 

sms 

2017-06-11 

18:38:07, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Officially didn't work. \UQQ01f621 I'm going in in an hour. 

\U0001f620\U0001f620\U0001f620\U0001f620\U0001f620\U00 

01f620\U0001f620\U0001f620 

sms 

2017-06-11 

19:42:54, Sun 

INBOX 

I'm sorry 

sms 

2017-06-11 

19:43:50, Sun 

INBOX 

1 think so too, re I'm going to talk to him anyway 

sms 

2017-06-11 

19:44:40, Sun 

INBOX 

Sorry about the eras. Couldn't tell you what the steps are, it's 
been that long... 

sms 

2017-06-11 

19:46:27, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Yeah well I'm driving in now... 

sms 


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I'm sorry. That sucks. Im trying to reach Aaron about 

because we suck and won't have an answer until 
Itomorrow. sms 


Just talked to Bill, who had talked with Carl. Bill *thinks* Carl has 
spoken with Andy. Bill and are going to make the call to 

tomorrow then figure out how to get the material and 
see what's on there.\n\nNow going to go track down Aaron... 

Bill mentioned EADs and above are gone tomorrow at some 

leadershi p retreat \U0001f612. You going to talk to Andy? _ 

Frankly gotta say I'm curious what's been relayed to him... 

He is going too. But yes, I'll try to talk to him before hand. 


| We need to get Baker to do some award presentation for 



I agree. 

Have five things I don't have the figures for. Maybe I'll come back 
tonight..;_ 


I hope the meeting 

between Aaron and Carl resolves some of my uncertainty / stress. 


You shouldn't stay on, regardless of what happens. 

You're right, of course. \n\nWhat are you thinking about you? No 

change? _ 

I'm serious about you. Imagine the scene, head held high at the 30 
day mark, just a string handshake and a good luck. As opposed to 
a "can I pretty please sit in on these meetings?" F it Pete. You can 

do better than this. _ 

I know. \U0001f614 

Had the same thought when you sent me I don’t 

want a significant portion of my time spent tracking down stuff 
that should have been sent, or included, or invited, on behalf of 

the investigators. _ 

Exactly. I honestly think it is an easy decision, regardless of what 
comes next at Fbi. 


I'm grumpy 


Yup, join the club. 

I am starting to hedge off of my certainly that you should go.... 


Yeah but I don't have great options. Maybe I can do this for a 





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Type 

2017-06-12 

12:36:54, Mon 

INBOX 

Just talked to called yesterday, he was having a call 

with Dave and Carl later about so someone clearly 

decided to include him, which is good. \n\i hasn't talked to 

him since, which isn't great, particularly with a call with 
in 55 minutes. 7th floor in a vacuum.... 

sms 

2017-06-12 

22:19:41, Mon 

INBOX 

Hi sorry just saw this. In office with Aaron walked 

in about 5 ago. 

sms 

2017-06-12 

22:24:27, Mon 

INBOX 

And Jesus god is not concise 

sms 

2017-06-12 

22:28:12, Mon 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, well kicked me out of the recap he was giving for 

Mueller and 

sms 

2017-06-12 

22:28:33, Mon 

OUTBOX 

That's what 1 was coming to say. And I'll tell you re your email 
later. 

sms 

2017-06-12 

22:28:49, Mon 

INBOX 

Jims 

sms 

2017-06-12 

22:28:49, Mon 

INBOX 

Doors open stop by quick 

sms 

2017-06-13 

00:51:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Hey anticipating you may be a bit so I'm going to Jet. Give me a 
call, of course, eager to hear how it went.... :) 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:09:01, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Still in with him. Having a very good open convo. Thinking 

plus He's on board, it's others who may 

not vet be comfortable with the idea. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:09:57, Tue 

INBOX 

Excellent! !! \U0001f60a\n\nOthers attys? 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:10:31, Tue 

INBOX 

Aaron's or Muellers? 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:10:51, Tue 

OUTBOX 

It would need to be mueller's to make sense. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:10:54, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Stand by. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:11:08, Tue 

INBOX 

Agreed. Is Bob ok with that? 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:31:52, Tue 

INBOX 

sms 




2017-06-13 

01:32:48, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Sorry. Walking out of SC now, but probably not smart to walk 
down the street on my phone. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:34:36, Tue 


K. 

sms 

INBOX 


2017-06-13 

01:35:29, Tue 

OUTBOX 

We should talk now then be 1 have to go up to the ofc and lock up. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:53:32, Tue 

INBOX 

Thinking about it, that was a really good conversation. It shows 
me that Aaron trusts and respects you. :) 

sms 

2017-06-13 

01:58:48, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, 1 think that's right. At least 1 hope so. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

02:03:57, Tue 

INBOX 

Oh, for sure. \U0001f60a 

sms 

2017-06-13 

02:04:28, Tue 

OUTBOX 


sms 

2017-06-13 

02:05:43, Tue 

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2017-06-13 

09:09:44, Tue 


Been up since 345. This is GREAT.\n\nRealized 1 need an answer 
from Aaron/Mueller about my role. If I'm not in the 

then im out. I'm frustrated that they're talking 



INBOX 

about all this restructuring and various : or you 

(or anyone) and 1 can't, as lead fbi person, get an answer to a 
auestion 1 asked a week aso. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

12:30:57, Tue 

OUTBOX 

Ah. News just said police activity on constitution ave. Awesome. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

12:32:51, Tue 

INBOX 

Super!\n\nAnd guess what! The 830 started! Without me!\n\nln 
mitigation, it's still just bob Aaron and 

sms 

2017-06-13 

12:43:45, Tue 

INBOX 

And double grumble. 1 just asked Aaron, hey can 1 attend Hill prep 
at 5. Loooong pause. Then, "OK, 1 *think* that's fine. It's not going 
to be what you think it is."\n\nHonestly, Lisa. \U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-13 

12:44:37, Tue 

INBOX 

I'm walking out. I'll wait to order. Just going to enjoy the morning 
outside before it gets oppressively hot... 

sms 

2017-06-13 

12:45:49, Tue 

OUTBOX 

1 know dude. 1 don't know what else to say. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

19:26:05, Tue 

INBOX 

Whoops. Misfire. Back. Had a SC feeling he really needed 
guidance. Which is fine. \n\nDid 1 miss anything? 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:50:01, Tue 

INBOX 

Just talked to aaron 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:50:24, Tue 

OUTBOX 

What's up? Just got home. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:51:06, T ue 

INBOX 

It'll wait. Discussion of 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:51:36, Tue 

INBOX 

Need to talk to you before you talk to him so you know what 1 said 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:52:51, Tue 

INBOX 

(Which was nothing, but we need to coordinate)\n\nHe knows 
who has them now but not how they got them 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:53:15, Tue 

INBOX 

My inclination is not to disclose who took them, but I'm not sure 
about that. 

sms 

2017-06-13 

23:53:35, Tue 

OUTBOX 

We can talk tomorrow. 

sms 



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Hey you still at lunch or OSC? Have a sec? 

Hey there, sorry. Will be back at my desk in 2. 

K I'll swing by. Couple of things before my 3 

Just call? Everyone is going to be walking up before the 3. 

Ok lync 

Sorry, I've been over at SC since about 3:15. 



Definitely had to fight back tears with 
I just don't know what to do, Pete. 
Gmail you something? 


almost with Aaron. 



Been talking to Bill since we got off the phone. He really thinks 
insult go, provided I can be I'm the room. I told him about tonight 

and that I just didn't see that happening. _ 

Nevermind re gmail 

And again I return to the fact that you are having an hour long 
conversation about whether you should go is completely asinine. 

You misunderstand. I walked in there in the first thing I said was, 

I've decided I shouldn't go and don't want to g o._ 

Bill then asked if I wanted to trade with him. 


I know, \n\nl just dug the email draft out of deleted items and 
sent it. 


Thanks. \n\nSaw your politico article too. God help me I don't 

think I can take much more of this. _ 

I know 


Hey. See Aaron's email. My guess is that is intended to exclude 

me, but let's discuss before you say anything. _ 

I didnt see you on the cc line (thanks Samsung \U0001f612) and 
already told Aaron I would right now. I'll hedge in the wording and 
say there may be adds/drops, \n\nl'm sure this came about in the 
discussion I had the door closed in my face\U0001f621 

Or because of the nyt story saying that SC seems to be pursuing 

potus in light of these interviews. _ _ 

Wp had it first. And it's as likely to be leaking. 

All of which I would have walked through, if I had been in the 
room. Because, you know, media leaks and what I do for a living. 




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Body_ 

Oh yeah, that's right. 

No, doing ethics training. Most everyone us here. 


I'm walking out now if you still need to talk. 

Never mind . Walking into my next mtg. 

Dang sorry was in sioc. Walking back over 

WP picked your name up in an online blog, citing Wired. "Right 
Turn,"^9:15 today 
And you're on 

Wiki\n\nhttps://en.rn.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Special_Counsel_ 

or t he United States Department of Justice team _ 

Btw, your iPhone is here 



Fley. Walking back now. 

K. :)\n\n Talking to 
wrapping up 


but I think we're 








I'm outside 

God I'm so disappointed in us as an organization. I want to send 
10 polygraphers to and poly the whole office. Or do every. 

Single. Last. Employee ._ 

Because the thing with this one is we're SO bad that no one down 
here (or a couple of people in CID) knew. So you could literally just 

do the field office ._ 

So f it, let's do it. 

Flave the A/DD pull the trigger.... 


Yeah well I hold no sway over that guy. 



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2017-06-16 

00:51:25, Fri 

INBOX 

Plus, that will get out, and go a long way in the court of public 
opinion. Maybe. That, or evidence of just how fed up we are 

sms 

2017-06-16 

00:52:05, Fri 

INBOX 

;aid we fired some n NY for leaking a 

tew months ago. They sure were quiet about it. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

02:54:09, Fri 

OUTBOX 

https://www.google.eom/amp/www.newyorker.com/magazine/2 

017/05/l5/taking-down-terr™-'<^-m-court/amp 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:36:37, Fri 

OUTBOX 

The link is a HUGE profile of in the new Yorker from last 

month. 

sms 

2017-06-16 
10:37:22, Fri 

OUTBOX 

And the guardian has a ref to me now which is completely 
exaggerated and overblown. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:37:24, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Very 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:37:56, Fri 

INBOX 

Ooh! :) Link? 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:38:02, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Guardian suggests lama Russia OC expert. It's ridiculous. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:39:02, Fri 

INBOX 

That's not necessarily good for you, from the perspective that 
Russians and Russian OC people in particular aren't always nice. 
Guess you can cross those plans to visit St Petersburg off the list... 

sms 

2017-06-16 
10:46:01, Fri 

INBOX 

Hmm. Just read it. 1 understand the various motivations - both in 
the media and maybe even Peter - but 1 also see various risks. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:47:24, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 sent it to Peter, said it was all wrong. He said he (obviously) 
couldn't work with this outlet but to keep letting him know when 
things are wrong. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:47:36, Fri 

INBOX 

1 don't know how you correct it - realistically you probably dont. 
And it would probably be a good thing 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:49:01, Fri 

OUTBOX 

What about 1 don't know anyone who knows 

more than him. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:49:06, Fri 

INBOX 

You saw you're in the print nyt, right? 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:49:30, Fri 

INBOX 

1 was talking prosecutors, but maybe. Can he be trusted? 

sms 

2017-06-16 
10:50:12, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yes. Absolutely. 1 thought he was actually 

sms 

2017-06-16 

10:50:35, Fri 

INBOX 

I'll call him today. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

11:34:06, Fri 

OUTBOX 

That profile on was massively long. Was up until 11:15 

reading and still didn't finish. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

11:35:41, Fri 

INBOX 

1 read a few paras and stopped 

sms 

2017-06-16 

11:36:39, Fri 

INBOX 

Funny how flavors run. Clearly an "article 3 courts work" agenda. 
Would have loved a tenth as much fawning from 

sms 

2017-06-16 

11:58:43, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yup. It's unbelievably fawning. And learned that she's exactly my 
age. Maybe one more or less years as a lawyer. And is 

the exact same year as me, 2006 law school grad. 

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2017-06-16 

12:05:29, Fri 

INBOX 

So you need to be And get an office. 

\U0001f612 

sms 

2017-06-16 

12:06:38, Fri 

INBOX 

And worry less about being REALLY good. \U0001f636 

sms 

2017-06-16 

12:09:31, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Yeah, that's not happening. 1 think mostly 1 just need to get over 
myself. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

12:10:02, Fri 

OUTBOX 

Let go of the fact that I'm not going to be in the room for most 
things and just accept that. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

12:12:55, Fri 

OUTBOX 

1 also need to screw up the courage to tell Aaron about my 
vacation. It's in less than two weeks and the house owner just said 
phone reception isn't great there and has a landline for 
emergencies. 

sms 

2017-06-16 

12:24:52, Fri 

INBOX 

Re your vacation, I'd rip off that bandaid today. Want me to nudge 
you? 

sms 

2017-06-17 

02:07:00, Sat 

INBOX 

Also, They'll be more agreeable to get out for the 

weekend. 

sms 

2017-06-17 

02:09:02, Sat 

OUTBOX 

Yes, but not if we keep them until 5 in the summer. 

sms 

2017-06-17 

02:11:27, Sat 

INBOX 

Fair point. Settles it. then. 

sms 

2017-06-17 

02:11:42, Sat 

OUTBOX 

But yes, is where Aaron and 1 landed too. 

sms 

2017-06-17 

02:19:15, Sat 

INBOX 

A) is right. \nB 

sms 

2017-06-17 

02:20:43, Sat 

OUTBOX 

And nope lots of reasons is preferable. 

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2017-06-17 


B) Why Fri?\n\n 


02:23:37, Sat 

INBOX 


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2017-06-18 

17:11:15, Sun 

OUTBOX 

Aaron just called to say he had spoken to some people (nfi) and 
had come up with a plan to have me fully integrated at and 

asked me to give him two weeks to implement (ie 

It's funny, because now 1 truly don't want it anymore, but 1 feel 
like I'm stuck. 

sms 

2017-06-18 

17:11:59, Sun 

OUTBOX 

1 must have really freaked him out on Friday when 1 told him 1 
wanted to join the 

sms 

2017-06-18 

17:31:31, Sun 

INBOX 

Hmm 

sms 

2017-06-18 

17:33:53, Sun 

INBOX 

1 worry he's freaking out because he doesn't want to track all the 
nickle-dime admin items that he hopes to give to you.\n\nDo YOU 
want that? 

sms 

2017-06-18 

17:35:04, Sun 

INBOX 

Did you tell him you really wanted on the When 

he and 1 spoke earlier in the week, he said he really thought the 
best place for you long term was 

sms 

2017-06-18 

17:36:19, Sun 

INBOX 

Wonder what changed, \n\nl worry it's the FOIA yuck, with a 
realization there will be a hundred things like that he doesn't 
want. 

sms 

2017-06-18 

17:38:02, Sun 

INBOX 

On my end, it's getting harder to let go as 1 get the access 1 
wanted and build the team...\U0001f615\n\nDespite that, you 
still think mv better plav is to go back? 

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2017-06-18 

18:04:54, Sun 

OUTBOX 

No, 1 don't! 1 really had found acceptance of my decision! And 
yeah, sure, I'll be in a couple of more meetings, but I'm still not